The Road Not Taken
-Frost
-Frost
Two roads ____________________,
And sorry I could not travel both
diverged in a yellow wood
Four score and ______________
our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that _________________.
seven years ago
all men are created equal
If you can keep your________________
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when _________________,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
head when all about you
all men doubt you
And be ____________, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it _______________;
one traveler
bent in the undergrowth
Now we are ______________________, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are _________________of that war.
engaged in a great civil war
met on a great battle-field
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t___________,
Or being hated, don’t ________________,
And yet don’t look too good, nor ___________:
deal in lies
give way to hating
talk too wise
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having ___________________,
Because it was _______________;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them _____________,
perhaps the better claim
grassy and wanted wear
really about the same
We have come to_________________, as a final resting place for those who here________________________. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
dedicate a portion of that field
gave their lives that that nation might live
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those ____________ just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make _____________,
Or watch _____________________, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
two impostors
a trap for fools
the things you gave your life to
And both that ___________________
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept _____________________!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I ________ I should ever come back.
morning equally lay
the first for another day
doubted if
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, _______________________ to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember ______________, but it can never forget what they did here.
have consecrated it, far above our poor power
what we say here
If you can force _______________________
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And _______________________________
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
your heart and nerve and sinew
so hold on when there is nothing in you
I shall be _________________
Somewhere _________ hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I ________________________,
And that _______ the difference.
telling this with a sigh
ages and ages
took the one less traveled by
has made all
t is rather for us to be here _________________________ -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that____________________________ -- that this nation, under God, ______________ -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
dedicated to the great task remaining before us
these dead shall not have died in vain
shall have a new birth of freedom
If you __________________________
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
_______________________ that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
can fill the unforgiving minute
Yours is the Earth and everything