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SARAH DOUDNEY
English novelist
(1843 - 1926)

The mill will never grind with the water that is past.
      - [Proverbs]

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."
      - Lesson of the Water-Mill [Past]

I send thee pansies while the year is young,
  Yellow as sunshine, purple as the night;
    Flowers of remembrance, ever fondly sung
      By all the chiefest of the Sons of Light;
        And if in recollection lives regret
          For wasted days and dreams that were not true,
            I tell thee that the "pansy freak'd with jet"
              Is still the heart's ease that the poets knew
                Take all the sweetness of a gift unsought,
                  And for the pansies send me back a thought.
      - Pansies [Pansies]

But the waiting time, my brothers,
  Is the hardest time of all.
      - Psalms of Life--The Hardest Time of All
        [Patience]


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