New Hampshire (Frost)/Nothing Gold Can Stay

New Hampshire
by Robert Frost
Nothing Gold Can Stay
2675158New Hampshire — Nothing Gold Can StayRobert Frost

NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY


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.