# General Information:

The writer describes a house in which various activities stop and appears to refer to the human body as it becomes old.

# strong men are bent over

"strong men become weak"

# the women who grind cease because they are few

"the women who grind grain stop grinding grain because there are few of them"

# those who look through windows become dim

"those who try to see can only see dimly." or "the people whom they see looking at them are dim."