TO YOU
61 lines✦
hat before this interval of the South Branch under blackmountains, there was another interval, the Upper at Plymouth,where we walked in spring beyond the covered bridge; but thatthe first interval of all was the old farm, our brook interval,so called by the man we had it from in sale. CONTENTS PAGETHE ROAD NOT TAKEN 9CHRISTMAS TREES 11AN OLD MAN'S WINTER NIGHT 14A PATCH OF OLD SNOW 15IN THE HOME STRETCH 16THE TELEPHONE 24MEETING AND PASSING 25HYLA BROOK 26THE OVEN BIRD 27BOND AND FREE 28BIRCHES 29PEA BRUSH 31PUTTING IN THE SEED 32A TIME TO TALK 33THE COW IN APPLE TIME 34AN ENCOUNTER 35RANGE-FINDING 36THE HILL WIFE 37I LONELINESS--HER WORD 37II HOUSE FEAR 37III THE SMILE--HER WORD 38IV THE OFT-REPEATED DREAM 38V THE IMPULSE 39THE BONFIRE 41A GIRL'S GARDEN 45THE EXPOSED NEST 48"OUT, OUT--" 50BROWN'S DESCENT OR THE WILLY-NILLY SLIDE 52THE GUM-GATHERER 56THE LINE-GANG 58THE VANISHING RED 59SNOW 61THE SOUND OF THE TREES 75 _THE ROAD NOT TAKEN_ _Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;_ _Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,_ _And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back._ _I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference._
✦