zondag 11 oktober 2009

The road less traveled


Tijdens herfstwandeling door het gebied van de Maurik (landgoed Tongelaar)
oog in oog met deze trotse Hooglander



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"

1 opmerking:

annemiek zei

Zacht wissen geduldige beesten
het verraad van de woorden weg
en later - in blauw en groen -
zullen opstaan de andere dagen:
nieuw en behoedzaam
Op voeten van tijd en verlangen

Fum van den Ham