Posted by
mountainmelody
On
11/18/2010 08:31:00 PM
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.
One of my favorite of Frost's . . . He so captures the bittersweetness of it all.