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Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost, New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (New York: Henry Holt, 1923), first edition, Grace Notes, p. 84 (Internet Archive page images, leaf n98); cross-checked with Project Gutenberg #58611
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Source: Robert Frost, New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (New York: Henry Holt, 1923), first edition, Grace Notes, p. 84 (Internet Archive page images, leaf n98); cross-checked with Project Gutenberg #58611 Source URL: https://archive.org/details/goog_a9xaAAAAMAAJ; https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58611 Public domain basis: First published in The Yale Review, October 1923; collected in New Hampshire (1923); public domain in the United States (published before 1931). Coverage: Complete: the poem as printed on page 84 of the 1923 first edition of New Hampshire.
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.