原文：

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.

譯文：

好事難長存

大地的新綠最佳美

是最難留存的真本色

花瓣的新蕊

總是早逝

而後總是新葉換舊葉

所以人間天堂(伊甸園)已悲沉

日頭總是會西落

世間好事總是難長存