Listen to the Water-Mill:
Through the live-long day
How the clicking of its wheel
Wears the hours away!
Languidly the Autumn wind
Stirs the forest leaves,
From the field the reapers sing
Binding up their sheaves:
And a proverb haunts my mind
As a spell is cast,
"The mill cannot grind
With the water that is past."
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Praise they that will times past, I joy to see
My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
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My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
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No traces left of all the busy scene,
But that remembrances says: The things have been.
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But that remembrances says: The things have been.
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The days of rejoicing are gone forever.
[Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.]
The days of rejoicing are gone forever.
[Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.]
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