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1. Nothing gold can stay

by Robert Frost

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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2. The Road Not Taken

by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

3. The farthest distance in the world

By Tagore [tə'gɔ:]

The farthest distance in the world

is not between life and death

but when I stand in front of you

yet you don't know that I love you

The farthest distance in the world

is not when I stand in front of you

yet you can't see my love

but when undoubtedly knowing the love from both yet cannot be together

The farthest distance in the world

is not being apart while being in love

but when plainly can not resist the yearning

yet pretending you have never been in my heart

The farthest distance in the world

is not but using one's indifferent heart

to dig an uncrossable river

for the one who loves you

The farthest distance in the world

Is not we cannot be together when we love each other

But we pretend caring nothing even we know love is unconquerable

The farthest distance in the world

Is not the distance between two trees

But the branches cannot depend on each other in wind even they grow from the same root

The farthest distance in the world

Is not the braches cannot depend on each other

But two stars cannot meet even they watch each other

The farthest distance in the world

Is not the track between two stars

But nowhere to search in a tick after two tracks join

The farthest distance in the world

Is not nowhere to search in a tick

But doomed not to be together before they meet

The farthest distance in the world

Is the distance between fish and bird

One is in the sky, another is in the sea

4. A Psalm of life

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tell me not in mournful numbers,

Life is but an empty dream!

For the soul is dead that slumbers,

And things are not what they seem.