The Road Not Taken

1. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

2. And sorry I could not travel both

3. And be one traveler, long I stood

4. And looked down one as far as I could

5. To where it bent in the undergrowth;

6. Then took the other, as just as fair,

7. And having perhaps the better claim,

8. Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

9. Though as for that the passing there

10. Had worn them really about the same,

11. And both that morning equally lay

12. In leaves no step had trodden black.

13. Oh, I kept the first for another day!

14. Yet knowing how way leads on to way,