Thunderbird District
Inland Northwest Council
Boy Scouts of America

Sample Eagle Scout Poem # 1 -
The Road Not Taken

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THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And being but 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 far;
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as far as 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 woods diverged in a wood, and I ---
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

This page last updated: March 7, 2006