From the "Salt Cellars"

Penitent sighs bring forth exultant songs.

     

     "Sin, repentance, and pardon, are like to the three vernal months in the year, March, April, and May.  Sin comes in like March, blustering, storming, and full of bold violence.  Repentance succeeds like April, showering, weeping, and full of tears.  Pardon follows like May, springing, singing, full of joys and flowers.  If our hands have been full of March, with the tempests of unrighteousness, our eyes must be full of April, with the sorrow of repentance; and then our hearts shall be full of May, in the true joy of forgiveness." - T. Adams