Meli was quoting from the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(Which turns this into a short literary Gold Slide!)
Robert Frost
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.
(The Fall; I do not know if Frost was an Infralapsarian or a Supralapsarian but I am pretty sure he was a gardener! Ironic to describe the break of Day as descending to High Noon! )
From S.E. Hinton, "The Outsiders" Know the quote...never read the book.
"Stay young, Be a dreamer. Be fascinated with the beauty surrounding you. Never allow the decay of the world to jade you, make you angry, and turn you into to something you're not. Stay gold, Pony Boy!"
It is Golden Hour on the West Coast, but Civil Twilight at 9:40 here on the Middle Border! (With that, Slide Over & Riding til Midnight!)
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Ahh... It has probably been close to 60 years since I read the Great Gatsby! Brain calcifying... 🤦 Thanks.
Literature lovers ping! ThankQ!