Nothing+Gold+Can+Stay

Robert Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" has a deep meaning to the protagonist, Ponyboy Curtis, in S.E. Hinton's //The Outsiders//.



**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. **