Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Two roads diverged... (Robert Frost)

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 
And sorry I could not travel both 
And be one traveler, long I stood 
And looked down one as far as I could 
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 
                        
Then took the other, as just as fair, 
And having perhaps the better claim, 
Because it was grassy and wanted wear; 
Though as for that the passing there 
Had worn them really about the same. 
                       
And both that morning equally lay 
In leaves no step had trodden black. 
Oh, I kept the first for another day! 
Yet knowing how way leads on to way, 
I doubted if I should ever come back. 
                       
I shall be telling this with a sigh 
Somewhere ages and ages hence: 
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – 
I took the one less traveled by, 
And that has made all the difference. 

--Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken, 
from Mountain Interval (1920)

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