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Listen to the Water-Mill:
Through the live-long day
How the clicking of its wheel
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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."
Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my read more
Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
The next day is never so good as the day before.
The next day is never so good as the day before.
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.]
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.
Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
Praise they that will times past, I joy to see
My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
Praise they that will times past, I joy to see
My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
