A pox on these clocks with their ticks and their tocks!
Like a sly little fox in thick woolen socks
Who torments the flocks by nipping their hocks,
Each mocks our hard knocks and our mortified shocks!
A pox on these clocks with their ticks and their tocks!
Put them in stocks bound by big heavy locks!
Throw them in a box pulled by ox to the docks,
Then lay that on blocks and bash it with rocks!