Mountain Interval
ROBERT FROST From the original in plaster by Aroldo Du Chêne Copyright, Henry Holt and Company
BY ROBERT FROST
NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
Copyright, 1916, 1921 by HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
May, 1931
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY RAHWAY, N. J.
TO YOU who least need reminding
that before this interval of the South Branch under black mountains, there was another interval, the Upper at Plymouth, where we walked in spring beyond the covered bridge; but that the first interval of all was the old farm, our brook interval, so called by the man we had it from in sale.
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( A Christmas Circular Letter )
Robert Frost
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MOUNTAIN INTERVAL
CONTENTS
CHRISTMAS TREES
AN OLD MAN’S WINTER NIGHT
A PATCH OF OLD SNOW
IN THE HOME STRETCH
THE TELEPHONE
MEETING AND PASSING
HYLA BROOK
THE OVEN BIRD
BOND AND FREE
BIRCHES
PEA BRUSH
PUTTING IN THE SEED
A TIME TO TALK
THE COW IN APPLE TIME
AN ENCOUNTER
RANGE-FINDING
THE HILL WIFE
LONELINESS
HOUSE FEAR
THE SMILE
THE OFT-REPEATED DREAM
THE IMPULSE
THE BONFIRE
A GIRL’S GARDEN
THE EXPOSED NEST
“OUT, OUT––”
BROWN’S DESCENT
THE GUM-GATHERER
THE LINE-GANG
THE VANISHING RED
SNOW