The Unexplorer
There was a road ran past our house Too lovely to explore. I asked my mother once--she said That if you followed where it led It brought you to the milk-man's door. (That's why I have not traveled more.)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
There was a road ran past our house Too lovely to explore. I asked my mother once--she said That if you followed where it led It brought you to the milk-man's door. (That's why I have not traveled more.)
A child notices a road near her house and thinks it is too lovely to explore, as if its beauty depends on its mystery. When she asks her mother where it leads, the answer is disappointingly ordinary: it just goes to the milkman’s door.
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