Saturday, September 21, 2024

Saturday Poetry Corner: The Road Not Taken

 




"You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is the fullness of joy,
at Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore."
(Psalm 16:11)




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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.



"The Road Not Taken"
(1915)
Robert Frost
(1874-1963)
American poet





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