“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
DIVERGED
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YELLOW WOOD
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And sorry I
could not
travel
both
And be
one
traveler,
long
I stood.
COULD
I
AS
FAR
AS
ONE
DOWN
LOOKED
AND
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
dive
rged
in a wood,
and I—
I took the one
less traveled by,
And that has made
all
the
difference.