First snow falls in kind
agreement to timeless ways.
Gratia plena.
Our Lady of Care
is a kindly countenance
sad as autumn frost.
Faithful tears reclaim
gardens brought to graceless ruin
by wishing wells of sin.
—Frederick S. Gilson
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