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.

Even if things do not stay as they once were, there is always evidence of their existance. On a molecular level, there are side reactions. But on a personal level, there is so much more...