Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
Poems of Sentiment: II. LifeRetribution
Friedrich von Logau (16041655)From the German by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(“The mills of the gods grind late, but they grind fine.”)
[Greek]
—Greek Poet.
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Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.