Edwin Arlington Robinson - The Mill lyrics

The miller's wife had waited long,   The tea was cold, the fire was dead; And there might yet be nothing wrong   In how he went and what he said: "There are no millers any more,"   Was all that she had heard him say; And he had lingered at the door   So long that it seemed yesterday. Sick with a fear that had no form   She knew that she was there at last; And in the mill there was a warm   And mealy fragrance of the past. What else there was would only seem   To say again what he had meant; And what was hanging from a beam   Would not have heeded where she went. And if she thought it followed her,   She may have reasoned in the dark That one way of the few there were   Would hide her and would leave no mark: Black water, smooth above the weir   Like starry velvet in the night, Though ruffled once, would soon appear   The same as ever to the sight.