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Or gone out doors.”
“In which case both are lost.
Do you know what she’s like? Have you ever met her?
It’s strange she doesn’t want to speak to us.”
“Fred, see if you can hear what I hear. Come.”
“A clock maybe.”
“Don’t you hear something else?”
“Not talking.”
“No.”
“Why, yes, I hear––what is it?”
“What do you say it is?”
“A baby’s crying!
Frantic it sounds, though muffled and far off.”
“Its mother wouldn’t let it cry like that,
Not if she’s there.”
“What do you make of it?”
“There’s only one thing possible to make,
That is, assuming––that she has gone out.
Of course she hasn’t though.” They both sat down
Helpless. “There’s nothing we can do till morning.”
“Fred, I shan’t let you think of going out.”
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“Hold on.” The double bell began to chirp.
They started up. Fred took the telephone.
“Hello, Meserve. You’re there, then!––And your wife?
Good! Why I asked––she didn’t seem to answer.
He says she went to let him in the barn.––
We’re glad. Oh, say no more about it, man.
Drop in and see us when you’re passing.”
“Well,
She has him then, though what she wants him for
I don’t see.”
“Possibly not for herself.
Maybe she only wants him for the children.”
“The whole to-do seems to have been for nothing.
What spoiled our night was to him just his fun.
What did he come in for?––To talk and visit?
Thought he’d just call to tell us it was snowing.
If he thinks he is going to make our house
A halfway coffee house ’twixt town and nowhere–––”
“I thought you’d feel you’d been too much concerned.”
“You think you haven’t been concerned yourself.”
“If you mean he was inconsiderate
To rout us out to think for him at midnight
And then take our advice no more than nothing,
Why, I agree with you. But let’s forgive him.
We’ve had a share in one night of his life.
What’ll you bet he ever calls again?”
I wonder about the trees.
Why do we wish to bear
Forever the noise of these
More than another noise
So close to our dwelling place?
We suffer them by the day
Till we lose all measure of pace,
And fixity in our joys,
And acquire a listening air.
They are that that talks of going
But never gets away;
And that talks no less for knowing,
As it grows wiser and older,
That now it means to stay.
My feet tug at the floor
And my head sways to my shoulder
Sometimes when I watch trees sway,
From the window or the door.
I shall set forth for somewhere,
I shall make the reckless choice
Some day when they are in voice
And tossing so as to scare
The white clouds over them on.
I shall have less to say,
But I shall be gone.
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Transcriber Notes
Typographical inconsistencies have been changed and are highlighted and listed below.
Archaic and variable spelling and hyphenation is preserved.
Author’s punctuation style is preserved, except where noted.
Transcriber Changes
The following changes were made to the original text:
Page 46: Added period after trees (Tomatoes, beets, beans, pumpkins, corn, And even fruit trees.)
Page 63: Added stanza break between go and Don’t (And three miles more to go!”
“Don’t let him go.)
Page 63: Single quote changed to double after through (“He’ll pull through.”)
Page 72: Removed extra stanza break after stumbles (The handle stumbles. The stubborn thing, the way it jars your arm!)
Page 74: Removed extra stanza break after wife (“Hello, Meserve. You’re there, then!––And your wife? Good! Why I asked––she didn’t seem to answer.)
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