Robert Frost - Evergreen Cemetery - Jacksonville, FL - Etched in Stone on Waymarking.com

The line of poem is etched on the headstone of William May Sulzbacher (March 24, 1945 - June 6, 2010). The line of poem etched on the headstone is: "Nothing Gold Can Stay ~ Robert Frost"

The full poem is:

"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."

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The following information about the poem is from Wikipedia (visit link) :

""Nothing Gold Can Stay" is a poem by Robert Frost, written in 1923, and published in the Yale Review in October of that year. It was later published in the collection New Hampshire (1923; copyright renewed 1951) that earned Frost the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. New Hampshire also included Frost's poems "Fire and Ice" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.""

Address: 4535 North Main Street Jacksonville, Florida 32206 USA Website: [Web Link]

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