Nothing Gold Can Stay

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1. Nature's first green is gold,
2. Her hardest hue to hold.
3. Her early leaf's a flower;
4. But only so an hour.
5. Then leaf subsides to leaf.
6. So Eden sank to grief,
7. So dawn goes down to day.
8. Nothing gold can stay.