| 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 on to 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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