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There is the ruined water mill	A
With its rotten wheel that stands as still	A
As its image that sleeps in the glassy pool	B
Where the water snake coils dim and cool	B
In the flaky light of the setting sun	C
Showering his gold in bullion	C
And the languid daisies nod and shine	D
By the trickling fall in a starry line	D
The drowsy daisies with eyes of gold	E
Large as the eyes of a queen of old	E
Dreaming of revels by day and night	F
Coyly o'erdropped with lashes white	F
The hawk sails high in the sleepy air	G
The buzzard on wings as strong and fair	G
Circles and stoops 'neath the lazy cloud	H
And crows in the wood are cawing aloud	H
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Will ye enter with me this ruined mill	A
When the shades of night its chambers fill	A
Stand and lurk in the heavy dark	I
Like scowling fiends each eye a spark	I
A spark of moonlight shot thro' gloom	J
While a moist rank stifling dead perfume	J
Of rotting timbers and rotting grain	K
And roofs all warped with the sun and rain	K
Makes of the stagnant air a cell	L
In the haunted chambers broods like a spell	L
A spell that makes the awed mind run	C
To the thoughts of a hidden skeleton	C
A skeleton ghastly and livid and lank	M
'Neath the mossy floors in a cellar dank	M
Grinning and glow'ring moisture wet	N
In its hollow eyes a mad regret	N
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Or with me enter when the evening star	O
In the saffron heaven is sparkling afar	O
In all its glory of light divine	D
Like a diamond bathed in kingly wine	D
Or when the heavens hang wild and gray	P
And the chilly clouds are hurrying away	P
Like the driven leaves of an Autumn day	P
When the night rain sounds on the sodden roof	Q
And the spider lulls in his dusty woof	Q
When the wet wind whines like a hound that's lashed	R
'Round the crazy angles strongly dashed	R
Or wails in a cranny 'tis she who plays	S
On her airy harp sad olden lays	S
And sings and moans in a room above	T
Of a vague despair and a blighted love	T
You will see her sit on the shattered sill	A
Her sable tresses dropped loose at will	A
And down in the West 'neath the storm's black bank	M
A belt of wild green cold livid and lank	M
And a crescent moon like a demon's barque	M
Into the green dips a horn from the dark	M
While a lurid light of ghoulish gold	E
On the eldrich creature falls strangely cold	E
Her insane eyes bulge mad with desire	U
And her face's beauty is darkly dire	V
For she sees in the pool that solidly lies	W
'Neath the mill's great wheel and the stormy skies	W
Her murdered lover lie faint and white	F
A haunting horror a loadstone's might	F
Drawing and dragging her soul from its seat	X
To the glimmering ice of his ghastly feet	X

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