{"id":193,"date":"2005-08-01T21:24:01","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T01:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=193"},"modified":"2005-08-01T21:24:01","modified_gmt":"2005-08-02T01:24:01","slug":"ninety-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"ninety years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Frost published this old standby on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayinliterature.com\/today.asp?Search_Date=8\/01\/2005\">Aug. 1, 1915<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>The Road Not Taken<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,<br \/>\nAnd sorry I could not travel both<br \/>\nAnd be one traveler, long I stood<br \/>\nAnd looked down one as far as I could<br \/>\nTo where it bent in the undergrowth.<\/p>\n<p>Then took the other, just as fair,<br \/>\nAnd having perhaps the better claim,<br \/>\nBecause it was grassy and wanted wear;<br \/>\nThough as for that the passing there<br \/>\nHad worn them really about the same.<\/p>\n<p>And both that morning equally lay<br \/>\nIn leaves no step had trodden black.<br \/>\nOh, I kept the first for another day!<br \/>\nYet knowing how way leads on to way,<br \/>\nI doubted if I should ever come back.<\/p>\n<p>I shall be telling this with a sigh<br \/>\nSomewhere ages and ages hence:<br \/>\nTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I &#8212;<br \/>\nI took the one less traveled by,<br \/>\nAnd that has made all the difference.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I never hear Frost without thinking of Dad. And while &#8220;The Road Not Taken&#8221; is good, I much prefer this other Frost poem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whose woods these are I think I know.<br \/>\nHis house is in the village, though;<br \/>\nHe will not see me stopping here<br \/>\nTo watch his woods fill up with snow.<br \/>\nMy little horse must think it queer<br \/>\nTo stop without a farmhouse near<br \/>\nBetween the woods and frozen lake<br \/>\nThe darkest evening of the year.<\/p>\n<p>He gives his harness bells a shake<br \/>\nTo ask if there is some mistake.<br \/>\nThe only other sound&#8217;s the sweep<br \/>\nOf easy wind and downy flake.<br \/>\nThe woods are lovely, dark and deep,<br \/>\nBut I have promises to keep,<br \/>\nAnd miles to go before I sleep,<br \/>\nAnd miles to go before I sleep.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Frost published this old standby on Aug. 1, 1915: 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. 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