 |  The American Tradition in Literature, Volume 1, 10/e George Perkins,
Eastern Michigan University
Barbara Perkins,
University of Toledo-Toledo
Texts OnlineTHE ROAD NOT TAKEN(i)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood(ii),
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(iii);
Then took the other, as just as fair(iv),
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(v),
And that has made all the difference(vi). |
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