Jalan yang Tak Diambil
-Robert Frost-
Dua jalan bercabang di hutan yang menguning
sayang, aku tak bisa menempuh keduanya
sebagai seorang pengembara, lama aku berdiri
dan menatap salah satunya sejauh yang kubisa
sampai jalan itu berkelok di balik semak belukar
lalu kuteliti jalan yang lain, sama,
mungkin malah tampak lebih baik
berumput segar dan menarik hati
meskipun jejak yang telah melewatinya
juga telah merundukkan rerumputannya
dan pagi itu dua jalan sama-sama terbentang
tertutup daun-daun yang tak pernah terinjak
oh, kusimpan jalan yang pertama untuk lain hari!
meski aku tak tahu ujung jalan sana
apakah ada jalan kembali
Akan kuceritakan dengan lirih
suatu waktu berabad kemudian:
Dua jalan terbentang di hutan, dan aku...
aku mengambil jalan yang tak diambil orang lain
dan kutahu, itulah yang membuat perbedaan
The Road Not Taken;
-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
-Robert Frost-
Dua jalan bercabang di hutan yang menguning
sayang, aku tak bisa menempuh keduanya
sebagai seorang pengembara, lama aku berdiri
dan menatap salah satunya sejauh yang kubisa
sampai jalan itu berkelok di balik semak belukar
lalu kuteliti jalan yang lain, sama,
mungkin malah tampak lebih baik
berumput segar dan menarik hati
meskipun jejak yang telah melewatinya
juga telah merundukkan rerumputannya
dan pagi itu dua jalan sama-sama terbentang
tertutup daun-daun yang tak pernah terinjak
oh, kusimpan jalan yang pertama untuk lain hari!
meski aku tak tahu ujung jalan sana
apakah ada jalan kembali
Akan kuceritakan dengan lirih
suatu waktu berabad kemudian:
Dua jalan terbentang di hutan, dan aku...
aku mengambil jalan yang tak diambil orang lain
dan kutahu, itulah yang membuat perbedaan
The Road Not Taken;
-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
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