莫比埃湖畔

The Road Not Taken
                                                   --  Robert Frost

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.

《未行之路》

                   --羅伯‧福洛斯特

黃色的樹林裡分出兩條路，

可惜我不能同時去涉足，

我在那路口久久佇立，

我向著一條路極目望去，

直到它消失在叢林深處。

但我卻選了另外一條路，

它荒草萋萋，十分幽寂，

顯得更誘人，更美麗；

雖然在這兩條小路上，

卻很少留下旅人的足跡。

那天清晨落葉滿地，

兩條路都未經腳印污染。

啊，留下一條路等改日再見 !

但我知道路徑延綿無盡頭，

恐怕我難以再回返。

也許多少年後在某個地方，

我將輕聲嘆息將往事回顧：

一片樹林裡分出兩條路──

而我選擇了人跡更少的一條，

從此決定了我一生的道路。