Tall-case striking clock made in Boston by Benjamin Bagnall Sr. between 1730 and 1745
— Photo by Daderot
“Back and forth, back and forth
goes the tock, tock, tock
of the orange, bland ambassadorial
face of the moon
on the grandfather clock.’’
— “Fall 1961,’’ by Robert Lowell (1917-1977), among New England’s most famous poets since Robert Frost.
