Retribution. Friedrich von Logau (1604-1655). Poems of Sentiment: II. Life. Bliss Carman, et al., eds. 1904. The World's Best Poetry. VI. Fancy

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 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.