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5.13.13: Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" (1916)

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    CC-BY-NC-4.0 Photographer: Ole Fossgård

    "The Road Not Taken"

    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 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 the wood, and I –
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.

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    • Adapted from Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken, Writer: Jan-Louis Nagel, Provided by NDLA, CC CC-BY-SA-4.0

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