THE LESSON OF THE WATER MILL.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 148, 3 April 1886, Page 7

THE LESSON OF THE WATER MILL.

Listen to the water mill t Through the live-long day, How the clicking of its wheel Wears Hie hours away* Languidly the autumn wind Stirs the greenwood leaves ; From the iheUi the icapors bing, Binding up their sheaves : Ami a piovorb haunts my mind) As a spell is cast, — "The mill cannot grind With the water that is past."

" Autumn winds no more revive Leaves that once are shed ; And the siokie cannot reap Corn once gathered. And the ruffled btreiin flows on> Tuimjiii!. dee}» and bliil, Xever gliding b.ick again To the water mill. Truly speaks the proverb old, With a meaning vast, — "The mill cuhuot griud With the wutci* that is past.

*T.iko the le«*on to thyself, Loving heart* so true ! Gulden j*,a»'s are Heeling by^ Youth is passing ton. Lc.uu to make tlie most of life, Lose no happy da\ , Time will ne\er brinjj thee back Chances swept Away. Leave no tender won! unsaid* Love while love snail last) "TWe mill cannot irrind With the water that is p<mt." \York while yet the daylight shines^ Man or «-treni:th and will ; Kt-vt-r Irt the stte.uulet glide Useless by the inilU \Vait not tiil to-morrow's si»n lieam-> upon th\ \ '*>*> All that thou tanst <:all thine own Lives in thy ' to day.' 1 Pdwer^ and intfllect. and health May not siluhv. la^t, "The mil! cannot j^und With the water that is past.'*

Oli. the wasted ii.mr* of life That have dritted by I Oh, the good that might have been \ Lost without a sigh. Loved ones that wo might have saved, May he, by .1 woid ; Thoughts conceived, but never penned, Penciling unheard, lake the proverb t • thine heart) Tak**, and hold it fast :-=■ The mill cannot grind With the water that is past."