The TelephoneWhen I was just as far as I could walk From here today There was an hour All still When leaning with my head against a flower I heard you talk. Don't say I didn't for I heard you say You spoke from that flower on the window sill- Do you remember what it was you said ''First tell me what it was you thought you heard.'' Having found the flower and driven a bee away I leaned my head And holding by the stalk I listened and I thought I caught the word What was it Did you call me by my name Or did you say Someone said "Come"I heard it as I bowed.'' I may have thought as much but not aloud.' Well so I came. Robert Frost
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The telephone rings and the elevator rattles and the walls shake and the windows rattle and the light bulb hums and all except you seem to be alive. And then you answer the telephone, and the elevator rattles and the walls shake and the windows rattle and the light bulb hums or yours is ringing. And you go for a walk, and you phone again, and it's ringing, ringing. And you pick up your pen, and write out a letter.

And you phone again, ringing. And you look at your watch, or your clock, or your calendar. You sit down to write a letter.

Then it rings again, ringing. And you stand up and look out of your window. It's raining, rain.

Then it rings again, ringing: ringing: ringing: ringing: ringing: ringing: ringing: ringing: ringing: Ringing

Source: The Poetry Of Robert Frost

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