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<\/a><\/p>\nLet the old snow be covered with the new:
\nThe trampled snow, so soiled, and stained, and sodden.
\nLet it be hidden wholly from our view
\nBy pure white flakes, all trackless and untrodden.
\nWhen Winter dies, low at the sweet Spring\u2019s feet
\nLet him be mantled in a clean, white sheet.<\/p>\n
Let the old life be covered by the new:
\nThe old past life so full of sad mistakes,
\nLet it be wholly hidden from the view
\nBy deeds as white and silent as snow-flakes.<\/p>\n
Ere this earth life melts in the eternal Spring \u2014Ella Wheeler Wilcox<\/em><\/p>\n Here is a sketch of our snowy spring garden\u2014but it\u2019s unfortunately not enough of a snowfall to \u201chide wholly from view\u201d our newly delivered city trash and recycling bins, freshly painted by my husband and son with the house number. Let the old snow be covered with the new: The trampled snow, so soiled, andRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[47,17,19,117,72,3,18,46],"class_list":["post-7041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbook","tag-dc","tag-penink","tag-poem","tag-snow","tag-spring","tag-watercolor","tag-winter","tag-woodley-park"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7043,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7041\/revisions\/7043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLet the white mantle of repentance fling
\nSoft drapery about it, fold on fold,
\nEven as the new snow covers up the old.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>Lauren<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"