Nothing Gold Can Stay

Robert Frost

1874 to 1963

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Track 1

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Every 10th word

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.