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Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

Poems of Sentiment: II. Life

Retribution

Friedrich von Logau (1604–1655)

From the German by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • [Greek]
  • (“The mills of the gods grind late, but they grind fine.”)
  • —Greek Poet.

    • THOUGH the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;

    Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.


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