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whistler162

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19. Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken and
Sun Mar 21, 2021, 01:04 PM
Mar 2021
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken

The Road Not Taken
BY 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;

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.

Leaves of Fall - whistler162

Green to Red
Red to Gold
Gold to Brown
All Fall Down

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