1. Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
2 . I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,
starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn,
3 . Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
4 . My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains.
Round the decay of that colossal wreck,
Boundless and bare,
5. Fee-fi-fo-fum
I smell the blood of an Englishman.
Be he alive or be he dead,
6. Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day's occupations,
7. A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread, and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness,
8. God gave Noah the rainbow sign, no more water,
9. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
10. Afoot and light-hearted, I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
11. A man's reach must exceed his grasp,
12. Because I could not stop for Death,
13. It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
14. Haply I think on thee,_and then my state
(Like to the lark at break of day raising
from sullen earth) sings hymns at the heaven's gate.
15. Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death,
16. Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,