Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Frosty Gratitude


 Two roads emerged in a graying wood, 

And glad we could not travel both 

But be one traveler, long we stood 

And looked back two as far as we could 

To where they bent in the undergrowth;


Then took together, as just as fair, 

And having perhaps the better claim, 

Because they were 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, we kept the first for another day! 

Yet knowing how way leads on to way, 

We doubted if we should ever go back.


We shall be telling this with a smile 

Somewhere sages and pages hence: 

Two roads emerged in a wood, and I— 

We took the one that made this moment, 

And that has made all the difference.

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