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The Unexplorer

There was a road ran past our houseToo lovely to explore.I asked my mother once—she saidThat if you followed where it ledIt brought you to the milk-man’s door.(That’s why I have not traveled more.)

“The Unexplorer” was published in A Few Figs From Thistles (Harper & Brothers, 1922). This poem is in the public domain.