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Title: Mountain Interval
Author: Robert Frost
Release Date: July 7, 2009 [EBook #29345]
Language: English
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ROBERT FROST
From the original in plaster by Aroldo Du Chêne
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.
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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 | 33 | ||||||||||||||
THE COW IN APPLE TIME | 34 | ||||||||||||||
AN ENCOUNTER | 35 | ||||||||||||||
RANGE-FINDING | 36 | ||||||||||||||
THE HILL WIFE | 37 | ||||||||||||||
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THE BONFIRE | 41 | ||||||||||||||
A GIRL’S GARDEN | 45 | ||||||||||||||
THE EXPOSED NEST | 48 | ||||||||||||||
“OUT, OUT––” | 50 | ||||||||||||||
BROWN’S DESCENT OR THE WILLY-NILLY SLIDE | 52 | ||||||||||||||
THE GUM-GATHERER | 56 | ||||||||||||||
THE LINE-GANG | 58 | ||||||||||||||
THE VANISHING RED | 59 | ||||||||||||||
SNOW | 61 | ||||||||||||||
THE SOUND OF THE TREES | 75 |
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