The Road Not Taken - 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

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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

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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 onto way

I doubted if I should ever come back

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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.

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Read by Ted Hughes (!)