新绿若金童,难留玉面红。
娇花方润雨,老叶已临风。
春树霜前朽,仙山梦里终。
霞沉清昼起,逝水转头空。
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.