Produced by David Starner, Katherine Ward and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [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 33 THE COW IN APPLE TIME 34 AN ENCOUNTER 35 RANGE-FINDING 36 THE HILL WIFE 37 I LONELINESS--HER WORD 37 II HOUSE FEAR 37 III THE SMILE--HER WORD 38 IV THE OFT-REPEATED DREAM 38 V THE IMPULSE 39 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