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Title: Mountain Interval

Author: Robert Frost

Release Date: July 7, 2009 [EBook #29345]

Language: English

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[Illustration: ROBERT FROST
From the original in plaster by AROLDO DU CHENE
_Copyright, Henry Holt and Company_]

MOUNTAIN INTERVAL

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.

CONTENTS

PAGE
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN 9
CHRISTMAS TREES 11
AN OLD MAN'S WINTER NIGHT 14
A PATCH OF OLD SNOW 15
IN THE HOME STRETCH 16
THE TELEPHONE 24
MEETING AND PASSING 25
HYLA BROOK 26
THE OVEN BIRD 27
BOND AND FREE 28
BIRCHES 29
PEA BRUSH 31
PUTTING IN THE SEED 32
A TIME TO TALK