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Nothing Clothed Can Stay

17 January 2006, 22:18

Photo by jtcoleman

Nature’s first cover is none
‘Til somebody wraps you in one.
Fastened beyond your power
But only so an hour.
Then clasp subsides to elastic
Loosing a change more drastic.
For freedom and not for display.
Nothing clothed can stay.

Robert Frost’s poem Nothing Gold Can Stay