A tidy little verse comparing a schoolroom clock's two hands to keeping a clean face and doing what's right. More gentle moral than nonsense rhyme, and a natural way into talking about clocks.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
There's a neat little clock,—
In the schoolroom it stands,—
And it points to the time
With its two little hands.
And may we, like the clock,
Keep a face clean and bright,
With hands ever ready
To do what is right.
About this rhyme
A schoolroom rhyme with a lesson folded in: be like the clock, a clean face and hands always ready to do right. The clock in the poem stands in a real schoolroom, with two little hands, which makes it a natural one for teaching the time alongside an actual clock face.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition