難留金玉作常客

羅伯特·弗羅斯特作 傅正明譯

天工神筆塗初綠，

金貴茵茵難久駐，

嫩葉青青美若花，

片時凋謝餘枯樹。

飄零一葉兩三葉，

伊甸園悲花褪色，

晨曦晴霞催日沉，

難留金玉作常客。

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.