“153. The mill cannot grind with water that's past.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“And a proverb haunts my mind
As a spell is cast,
"The mill cannot grind
With the water that is past."”
Poem: Lesson of the Water-Mill.
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