The Telephone

‘When I was just as far as I could walk From here to-day, 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.’