未行之路/（美）羅勃．佛洛斯特

黃樹林裡分岔兩條路，

只可惜我不能都踏行。

我，單獨的旅人，

佇立良久，極目眺望一條路的盡頭，

看它隱沒在林叢深處。

於是我選擇另一條路，

一樣平直，也許更值得，

因為青草茵茵，

還未被踩過，

若有過往人蹤跡，

路的狀況會相差無幾，

哪天早晨，

兩條路都覆蓋在松葉下，

沒有踐踏的汙痕，

啊，原先那條路留給另一天吧，

我懷疑自己是否會回到原處。

在許多年以後，在某處，

我會輕輕嘆息說：

黃樹林裡分岔兩條路，

而我，

我選擇了較少人跡的一條

使得一切多麼地不同。

The road not taken/ Rober 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.