A March Snow by Ella Wheeler Wilcox — Read

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