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Let’s take a pause and refresh ourselves with a bit of poetry for Sunday morning.  I’ve been thinking a lot about Robert Frost lately, especially with the attention that Brian Hall is getting for his new novel of the poet’s life, Fall of Frost.  He is also getting some heat for taking a nonconventional approach to a revered figure in American letters and a novelist’s liberties with the hearts and minds of his ‘characters,’ but the Boston Globe calls it ‘intensely moving and supremely intelligent.’ In any event, while sitting on my porch last weekend I was watching the first tiny, unfurling leaves of the maple across the street, of so new a green as to be gold and thought of this poem by Frost:

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.

Deceptively simple, like all of Frost’s poems! Here’s another favorite:

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