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ING Dives he was walking in his garden all alone,

Where his flowers are made of iron and his trees are made of stone,

And his hives are full of thunder and the lightning leaps and kills,

For the mills of God grind slowly; and he works with other mills.

Dives found a mighty silence; and he missed the throb and leap,

The noise of all the sleepless creatures singing him to sleep.

And he said: "A screw has fallen—or a bolt has slipped aside—

Some little thing has shifted": and the little things replied:

"Call upon the wheels, master, call upon the wheels;

We are taking rest, master, finding how it feels,

Strict the law of thine and mine: theft we ever shun—