Nothing Gold Can Stay -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One A Long Descent -- Chapter Two Sturm und Drang -- Chapter Three Field and Stream -- Chapter Four Innocence Lost -- Chapter Five Beginning Again -- Chapter Six A Different Drummer -- Chapter Seven The Real Marines -- Chapter Eight The Real Marines-Part II -- Chapter Nine Gentlemen at Last -- Chapter Ten Deliverance -- Chapter Eleven Home Again -- Chapter Twelve Carousing with People -- Walking with Dogs -- Chapter Thirteen Back Where I Longed to Be -- Chapter Fourteen Visitors from Far and Near -- Chapter Fifteen New Directions -- Chapter Sixteen The Old Order Changeth -- Chapter Seventeen The Academic-Literary Life -- Chapter Eighteen A Time of Waiting -- Chapter Nineteen Twilight Days -- Chapter Twenty Timor Mortis Conturbat Me.