| Robert Frost (1874–1963). Mountain Interval. 1920. |
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| 6. The Telephone |
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| “WHEN I was just as far as I could walk | |
| From here to-day, | |
| There was an hour | |
| All still | |
| When leaning with my head against a flower | 5 |
| I heard you talk. | |
| Don’t say I didn’t, for I heard you say— | |
| You spoke from that flower on the window sill— | |
| Do you remember what it was you said?” | |
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| “First tell me what it was you thought you heard.” | 10 |
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| “Having found the flower and driven a bee away, | |
| I leaned my head, | |
| And holding by the stalk, | |
| I listened and I thought I caught the word— | |
| What was it? Did you call me by my name? | 15 |
| Or did you say— | |
| Someone said ‘Come’—I heard it as I bowed.” | |
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| “I may have thought as much, but not aloud.” | |
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| “Well, so I came.” | |
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