Antti Pääkkönen, Fallen Maple Leaf, 2016.
CC 1.0 public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Nothing Gold Can StayNature’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.
~~
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
from New Hampshire, 1923
[Poem is in the public domain in Canada and the United States]
"Nothing Gold Can Stay" from The Outsiders. Courtesy Creekmonsters.
(Poem begins at 0:40)
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