Becoming American: Why Immigration Is Good for Our Nation's Future (34 page)

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.
¹

We have become Americans of Iranian, Polish, Korean, African, and French decent. We are proud of our accomplishments. We did it our way, and it has been rewarding for our lives and for the lives of Americans.

NOTE

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