The story is that someone at my local music group, used the line, Nothing Gold Can Stay, in an original song about old dogs. Someone else mentioned a second Robert Frost poem, Acceptance. I looked that up, and after some work, I have this song.
Here is the link to the PDF sheet music.
https://www.box.com/s/pmzxaaixi4z7nykwsgzn
Here is the MIDI link to hear the music.
https://www.box.com/s/meiq5vsgp97aty7r75no
My adapted lyrics follow:
Acceptance
The spent sun throws up its rays on cloud
And goes down burning into the gulf below
No voice in nature cries aloud
With the change to darkness in the sky
One bird closes fading eyes
Or overtaken too far from the nest
hurries low above the grove
Swooping to remembered tree
Now let the night be dark for all of me
Too dark to see into the future
So I can let what will be .. be ..
The original poem:
Acceptance by Robert Frost
When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud
And goes down burning into the gulf below,
No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud
At what has happened. Birds, at least must know
It is the change to darkness in the sky.
Murmuring something quiet in her breast,
One bird begins to close a faded eye;
Or overtaken too far from his nest,
Hurrying low above the grove, some waif
Swoops just in time to his remembered tree.
At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe!
Now let the night be dark for all of me.
Let the night be too dark for me to see
Into the future. Let what will be, ‘be.’
Enjoy.