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Poem by Francis Quarles


Respice Finem


MY soul, sit thou a patient looker-on;
Judge not the play before the play is done:
Her plot hath many changes; every day
Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play.



Francis Quarles


Francis Quarles's other poems:
  1. Hos Ego Versiculos
  2. On the Infancy of Our Savior
  3. Delight In God Only
  4. On Change of Weather
  5. The Loadstone


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