[ IP ] The Long Road

**The Only Road Traveled By** 
 
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 Two roads converged in a yellow plain, 
 
 And sorry I could not travel reverse, 
 
 And be one of many, not yet slain, 
 
 And look back to the morning rain, 
 
 To a time when it would quench my thirst. 
 
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 To have another, 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 would both that morning equally lay 
 
 In leaves no monstrosity had trodden black. 
 
 Oh, to have roads from other days, 
 
 And to have ways leading on to ways, 
 
 I doubt we shall ever have them back. 
 
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 I shall be telling this with a sigh 
 
 Somewhere ages and ages hence: 
 
 Two roads diverging in a plain, and I 
 
 I took the only one traveled by, 
 
 And that has made all the difference. 
 

