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Nothing Gold Can Stay

Robert Frost

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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TEXT PROVENANCE · First published 1923 · Collected in New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (Henry Holt and Company, 1923), p. 84 · Artist-supplied text checked against the first-edition transcription on Wikisource.

New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1923), p. 84

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