Consider every moment past A thread from life's frayed mantle cast.

-Abu'l-'Ala¤   Al-Ma'arri
c.1000  Luzu'  miyya'  t, stanza 57 (translated by R  A Nicholson in Studies in Islamic Poetry,1921).

Elijah passed by him and cast his mantle upon him.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings19:19.

At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue: Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.

-Milton,John
  Lycidas, l.192^3.

The sun has gane down o'er the lofty Benlomond, And left the red clouds to preside o'er the scene, While lanely I stray, in the calm simmer gloamin', To muse on sweet Jessie, the flower o' Dunblane. How sweet is the brier wi' its saft faulding blossom, And sweet is the birk, wi' its mantle o'green; Yet sweeter, and fairer, and dear to this bosom, Is lovely young Jessie, the flower o' Dunblane.

-Tannahill, Robert
  'Jessie, the Flower o' Dunblane', stanza1.