"ALL THAT GLISTERS IS NOT GOLD"

"All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold."

from shakespere:  The Merchant of Venice

NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY
            -----ROBERT FROST (1923)-----

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 today.
Nothing gold can stay.