Nothing Gold Can Stay

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Nothing Gold Can Stay was published in Frost's Pulitzer prize winning collection, New Hampshire in 1924.
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Sandeep, Flower decorated with pearls, 2014
 

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