Time Gone By, Time Now, and Time to Come

Time again to respond to the Weekly Photo Challenge:

These clocks I’ve carefully restored
  As heirlooms that they are,
And, in my study, they record
  How they can make go far
    Each minute of the passing time –
    The larger gives a lovely chime –
      Their time has travelled well.

For travel clock has journeyed much,
  To places quite far-flung,
The other of a nature such
  That it has hours rung
    In many places all around;
    For half, it gives a single sound,
      Its faithful time to tell.

In many homes across the years
  Tick-tocking,  at one wind,
In times of joy and times of tears,
  For seven days, you find;
   They have become as good old friends
   And though the time of such clocks ends
      These we would never sell.

© February 2016 Colonialist (WordPress)