CLOCK, TOWN. 83 



Ami for over fifty years, 



Through our human hopes and fears, 

 It has marked with tireless hands the passing days 



As the New supplants the Old, 



Let a fringe of living gold 

 With the words, ' Well done ! ' bespeak its lasting praise. 



" 'T is a poet's word of truth — 



Oh, adopt it, heart of youth ! — 



That the benefactor's name 



Outshines every star of fame, 

 And for one to serve most grandly is to give. 



To deny is but to die ; 



With the giver none may vie : 

 Who enriches others, evermore shall live, 



Every chime upon the bell, 



In the tower we love so well, 

 While the New Clock counts the moments as they leave, 



Shall recall the donor's deed, 



And ring out the Christian creed, 

 1 'Tis more blessed far to give than to receive ! ' " 



The old clock was made here on the island, and it 

 would have been well had it been preserved intact in 

 our museum, perhaps, both as a curiosity of early 

 mechanics at home and a specimen of comparative 

 handicraft with that of the present day. The steel, 

 iron, and brass work of the old clock — according to the 

 reliable assertion of Geo. W. Jenks, Esq., clerk of the 

 courts, who was a boy at the time of its making, and 

 assisted in its completion — was finished by Samuel 

 Jenks ; the dials and hands were designed and made 

 by Eobert W. Jenks; and the castings, which were of 

 brass, were made by Edward Field. Mr. Barzillai 



