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Poems . Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock, 1826–1887.
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page: 131

THE MILL.

For an Irish Tune.

  • WINDING and grinding
  • Round goes the mill:
  • Winding and grinding
  • Should never stand still.
  • Ask not if neighbor
  • Grind great or small:
  • Spare not your labor,
  • Grind your wheat all.
  • Winding and grinding round goes the mill:
  • Winding and grinding should never stand still.
  • Winding and grinding
  • Work through the day,
  • Grief never minding—
  • Grind it away!
  • What though tears dropping
  • Rust as they fall?
  • Have no wheel stopping—
  • Work comforts all.
  • Winding and grinding round goes the mill:
  • Winding and grinding should never stand still.
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