The mill

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.