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Nothing Gold Can Stay

Guidance for Reciting

Robert Frost is one of the most popular poets in America in 20th century. Most of his poems took subjects from natural life in countryside，expressing some philosophy with concise language and artistic conceptions：Every day is not Sunday.

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.

Notes

1.hue [hju：] n. 色，色彩

2.subside [sEb5said] v. 下沉，沉降

好景不长在

诵读导言

罗伯特？弗洛斯特（1874-1963），20世纪最受欢迎的美国诗人之一。他的诗大多以乡村生活为题材，语言简练而意境优美，大自然意象中充满了哲理意味：好景不长在，好花不常开。

大自然最初的绿是黄金，

她的色彩最难挽留。

它最早的叶子是花朵，

但只会绽放一会儿。

然后一片接一片地飘落。

伊甸园陷入悲哀，

黎明之后是白昼，

珍贵的事物难停留。