The Road Taken
Youth’s urgency permitted no delay
and many paths diverged. I didn’t know
which one to take or where I ought to go,
and settled for a broad and trodden way
because it offered light and company;
but as my friends dispersed along the road
I travelled on alone and often strode
in haste where I had no desire to be.
At evening everything becomes opaque,
and circumstance has turned the track I chose
back on itself, much nearer now to those
remembered byways I shall never take.
This is a light to me when dark is near:
the paths diverged but all at last led here.
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