The Mill

Winding and grinding

Round goes the mill,

Winding and grinding

Should never stand still.

Ask not if your neighbor

Grind great or small:

Span 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

Rush as they fall?

Have no wheel stopping—

Work comforts all.

Winding and grinding round goes the mill.

Winding and grinding should never stand still.