The Road Not Taken

The Road Not Taken
Ro Daean nga Owa Mapili
by Robert Frost
Gin-Inakeanon ni Melchor F. Cichon.
January 12, 2016

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;

Nagbueag ro daywang daean sa dueaw nga kakahoyan
Ag nasuboan ako ay indi ko tanan maagyan
Ag nangin sambilog nga byahero, mabuhay ako nga nagtindog
Ag ginhimutaran ro sambilog asta sa matan-aw ko
Kon siin naghawod sa mga kilaea.

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,

Ag dayon ginpili ko ro isaea, ag medyo pareho eang,
Ag siguro mas manami nga hapilian,
Bangod mahilamunon ag ginahangean nga magamit;
Ag siguro kon gin-inagyan man rato,
Posible nga mahawan eon man pareho ku isaea.

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.

Ag kada isaea sa agahon ngato
May mga dahon man nga owa pa maagyi.
O, ginbilin ko ro primero sa masunod nga adlaw.
Pero hasayran ko kon siin ako daehon,
Pero basi kon indi eon ako makabalik pa.

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.

Isugid ko ra nga may pagnuoe
Sa mga paeaabuton nga mga dinag-on halin makaron:
Nagbueag ro daywang daean sa kagueangan, ag ako--
Ginpili ko ro daean nga owa haeos ginaagyan,
Ag ruyon ro rason nga nag-eain sa tanan.

From The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1916, 1923, 1928, 1930, 1934, 1939, 1947, 1949, © 1969 by Holt Rinehart and Winston, Inc. Copyright 1936, 1942, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1951, 1953, 1954, © 1956, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962 by Robert Frost. Copyright © 1962, 1967, 1970 by Leslie Frost Ballantine