Randall Thompson — 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."