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, 1923
From S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders
Johnny: It’s like the mist is what’s pretty, ya know? All gold and silver.
Ponyboy: Hmm
Johnny: Too bad it can’t stay like that all the time.
Ponyboy: Nothing gold can stay.
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Johnny’s last lines to Ponyboy: Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold.
Logan Kroeber
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