《未走之路：弗罗斯特诗选》
蓝色花诗丛
人名文学出版社
曹明伦 译
The Road Not Taken
————Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both.
And be one traveller, 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 passing there
Had worn them really about the same.
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden back.
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 travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.
未走之路
金色的树林中有两条岔路，
可惜我不能沿着两条路行走；
我久久地站在那分岔的地方，
极目眺望其中一条路的尽头，
直到它转弯, 消失在树林深处。
然后我毅然踏上了另一条路，
这条路也许更值得我向往，
因为它荒草丛生，人迹罕至；
不过说到其冷清与荒凉。
两条路几乎是一模一样。
那天早晨两条路都铺满落叶，
落叶上都没有被踩踏的痕迹。
唉，我把第一条路留给将来！
但我知道人世间阡陌纵横，
我不知将来能否再回到那里。
我将会一边叹息一边叙说，
在某个地方，在很久很久以后：
曾有两条小路在树林中分手，
我选了一条人迹稀少的行走，
结果后来的一切都截然不同。
