Courtesy

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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