Let the old snow be covered with the new: <br />The trampled snow, so soiled, and stained, and sodden. <br />Let it be hidden wholly from our view <br />By pure white flakes, all trackless and untrodden. <br />When Winter dies, low at the sweet Spring's feet <br />Let him be mantled in a clean, white sheet. <br /> <br />Let the old life be covered by the new: <br />The old past life so full of sad mistakes, <br />Let it be wholly hidden from the view <br />By deeds as white and silent as snow-flakes. <br /> <br />Ere this earth life melts in the eternal Spring <br />Let the white mantle of repentance fling <br />Soft drapery about it, fold on fold, <br />Even as the new snow covers up the old.<br /><br />Ella Wheeler Wilcox<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-march-snow/
