"And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, "The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.""
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Novelists from EnglandChildren's authorsPoets from EnglandHymnwriters from EnglandWomen authors from England
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Poem: Lesson of the Water-Mill.
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Sarah Doudney
Sarah Doudney (15 January 1841, Portsea, Hampshire – 8 December 1926, Oxford) was an English novelist and poet, best known as a children's writer and hymnwriter.
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