Nothing Gold Can Stay: Chapter 1, Pages 1-2 (Patreon)

Out through the fields and the woodsAnd over the walls I have wendedI have climbed the hills of viewAnd looked at the world, and descendedI have come by the highway homeAnd lo, it is ended

The leaves are all dead on the groundSave those that the oak is keepingTo ravel them one by oneAnd let them go scraping and creepingOut over the crusted snowWhen others are sleeping

And the dead leaves lie huddled and stillNo longer blown hither and thitherThe last lone aster is goneThe flowers of the witch-hazel witherThe heart is still aching to seekBut the feet question, Whither

Ah, when to the heart of manWas it ever less than a treasonTo go with the drift of thingsTo yield with a grace to reasonAnd bow and accept the endOf a love or a season?

Reluctance, by Robert Frost

... And so, chapter 1 for Nothing Gold Can Stay has officially started, how exciting! Malachi dragon was supposed to be a placeholder palette, but stream chat encouraged me to keep it.