TEMPORAL (GWP Earpetizer)

Host Lynn Hickernell discusses the word, "temporal" with the poem, "Epitaph" by Alan L. Strang, an overview of the Kids Listen podcast "Timestorm," a temporally-related edition of "GET IT?!?!?" and the song, "Grandfather's Clock" performed by the Haydn Quartet.

SHOW NOTES:

"Epitaph" by Alan L. Strang 

Our loved ones lay them down to sleep  
And leave us here to grieve and mourn,  
While we, our silent watches keep,  
O'er their low graves whence they are bourne.  
Some heroes are in battle slain,  
Their names are honored far and near,  
While others die on beds of pain  
And no sad mourner sheds a tear. 

This day we honor each and all  
Whose soul has left its temporal case;  
And be he great, or be he small,  
We'll reverence his resting place. 

 

Find "Timestorm" on your favorite podcast player, or at TimestormSeries.com 

 

"Grandfather's Clock" performed by the Haydn Quartet on Archive.org 

My grandfather's clock was too large for the shelf,  
So it stood ninety years on the floor;  
It was taller by half than the old man himself,  
Though it weighed not a pennyweight more.  
It was bought on the morn of the day that he was born,  
And was always his treasure and pride;  
But it stopped short — never to go again —  
When the old man died. 

    Ninety years without slumbering  
   (tick, tock, tick, tock),  
   His life's seconds numbering,  
   (tick, tock, tick, tock),  
   It stopped short never to go again when the old man died 

It rang an alarm in the dead of the night —  
An alarm that for years had been dumb;  
And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight —  
That his hour of departure had come.  
Still the clock kept the time, with a soft and muffled chime,  
As we silently stood by his side;  
But it stopped short — never to go again —  
When the old man died. 

    Ninety years without slumbering  
   (tick, tock, tick, tock),  
   His life's seconds numbering,  
   (tick, tock, tick, tock),  
   It stopped short — never to go again —  
   When the old man died.

 

TEMPORAL episode transcript

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