难留金玉作常客

罗伯特·弗罗斯特作 傅正明译

天工神笔涂初绿，

金贵茵茵难久驻，

嫩叶青青美若花，

片时凋谢余枯树。

飘零一叶两三叶，

伊甸园悲花褪色，

晨曦晴霞催日沉，

难留金玉作常客。

Robert Frost（1874–1963)

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.