In the Memorial Service held last night at the Bascilica for the lost of Cougar 491, Archbishop Martin Currie quoted from a poem of Robert Frost (1874-1963). Here is another:

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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