В лесу весеннем
Видны две тропки под ногами чуть
И так виляют будто нет дороги.
Стал размышлять, на какую свернуть.
Первая, вторгшись в какую-то муть,
Выбрал другую - приятнее той.
Не уже, не хуже нимало.
Хотелось примять на ней травостой.
Прежде ходивших в той травке густой
тропка, должно быть, сама помяла.
Возможно, те тропки сходились вдали.
Которая лучше, не стоило спорить.
Сквозь листья нога не касалась земли,
и обе дороги меня влекли -
но я не вернулся туда вдругорядь.
Потом мне придётся не раз вздохнуть...
Тропинка вдруг на две распалась.
Будь там хоть кто, не помог бы ничуть -
я выбрал не многими хоженый путь.
Той разницей всё и решалось.
Robert Frost The Road Not Taken
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.
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A tree's leaves may be ever so good,
So may its bar, so may its wood;
But unless you put the right thing to its root
It never will show much flower or fruit.
But I may be one who does not care
Ever to have tree bloom or bear.
Leaves for smooth and bark for rough,
Leaves and bark may be tree enough.
Some giant trees have bloom so small
They might as well have none at all.
Late in life I have come on fern.
Now lichens are due to have their turn.
I bade men tell me which in brief,
Which is fairer, flower or leaf.
They did not have the wit to say,
Leaves by night and flowers by day.
Leaves and bar, leaves and bark,
To lean against and hear in the dark.
Petals I may have once pursued.
Leaves are all my darker mood.
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