新綠若金童,難留玉麵紅。
嬌花方潤雨,老葉已臨風。
春樹霜前朽,仙山夢裏終。
霞沉清晝起,逝水轉頭空。
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.