Nothing Gold Can Stay

Robert Frost

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1874 to 1963

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Her hardest hue to hold,
Nature's first green is gold,
So Eden sank to grief,
Nothing gold can stay.
So dawn goes down to day.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.

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