“Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day How the clicking of its wheel Wears the hours away! Languidly the Autumn wind Stirs the forest leaves, From the field the reapers sing Binding up their sheaves: And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, "The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.” MindLongPastWaterHoursFieldsWindCastsForestsWheelsAutumnSpellsGrindMillsBindingLong DayReaperAutumn Wind Book:Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns Source: Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns
“The grief of a child is always terrible. It is bottomless, without hope. A child has no past and no future. It just lives in the present moment - wholeheartedly. If the present moment spells disaster, the child suffers it with his whole heart, his whole soul, his whole strength, his whole little being.” IfsHeartChildrenLittlesSoulWholeMomentsPastSufferingGriefTerribleDisasterPresent MomentSpellsLive In The PresentJust LiveWithout HopeWholeheartedly Author:Maria Franziska von Trapp