未選擇之路

未選擇之路

       美/羅伯特•弗羅斯特

 

×××的樹林裏分出兩條路，
惋惜我不能同時去涉足，
我在那路口久久佇立，
我向一條路極目望去，
直到它消失在叢林深處。
但我卻選擇了另外一條路，
它荒草萋萋，十分幽寂，
顯得更誘人、更美麗；
雖然這兩條小路上，
卻不多留下旅人的足跡；
雖然那天清晨落葉滿地，
兩條路都未經腳印污染。
啊，留下一條路改日再見！
但我知道路徑綿延無盡頭，
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：
一片樹林裏分出兩條路——
而我選擇了人跡更少的一條，
今後決定了我一輩子的道路。

 

 

 

 

原文：

                The Road Not Taken

                                       By 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.