StoryTitle("caps", "The Windmill") ?>
StoryOrigin("center", "By permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(151, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Behold! A giant am I,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Aloft here in my tower;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With my granite jaws I devour", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The maize, the wheat, and the rye,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And grind them into flour.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I look down over the farms;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In the fields of grain I see", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The harvest that is to be,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I fling to the air my arms,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For I know it is all for me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I hear the sound of flails", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Far off, on the threshing floors", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In barns, with their open doors,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the wind, the wind in my sails", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Louder and louder roars.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I stand here in my place,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With my foot on the rock below,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And, whichever way it may blow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I meet it face to face,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As a brave man meets his foe.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And while we wrestle and strive,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My master, the miller, stands", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And feeds me with his hands,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For he knows who makes him thrive,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Who makes him lord of lands.", "") ?>
PagePoem(152, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On Sundays I take my rest;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Church-going bells begin", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Their low, melodious din;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I cross my arms on my breast,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And all is peace within.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>