A《未選擇的路》是佛洛斯特的一首名詩，作於1915年。
The Road Not Taken
Two road 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 doublted 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.
黃樹林裡分叉兩條路，
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，
看它隱沒在叢林深處。
於是我選擇了另一條路，
一樣平直，也許更值得，
因為青草茵茵，還未被踏過，
若有過往人蹤，
路的狀況會相差無幾。
那天早晨，兩條路都覆蓋在枯葉下，沒有踐踏的污痕：
啊，原先那條路留給另一天吧！
明知一條路會引出另一條路，
我懷疑我是否會回到原處。
在許多許多年以後，在某處，
我會輕輕歎息說：
黃樹林裡分叉兩條路，而我，
我選擇了較少人跡的一條，
Stopping by Woods on Snowy Evening
雪夜林畔小駐
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village thought;
He will not see me stopping here,
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
想來我認識這座森林
林主的莊宅就在鄉村
卻不會見我在此駐馬
看他林中積雪的美景
我的小馬一定頗驚訝
四望不見有什麼農家
偏是一年最暗的黃昏
寒林和冰湖之間停下
牠搖一搖身上的串鈴
問我這地方該不該停
此外只有輕風拂雪片
再也聽不見其他聲音
森林又暗又深真可羨
但我還要守一些諾言
還要趕多少路才安眠
還要趕多少路才安眠
（譯文錄自余光中）
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