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Poem: 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.

- Robert Frost
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    - Walter de la Mare See this house, how dark it is Beneath its vast-boughed trees! Not one trembling leaflet cries To that Watcher in the…

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