Living
Respice Finem
From The Oxford Book of English Verse, ed. A. Quiller-Couch (1900)
Living
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.
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MLA
Quarles, Francis. “Respice Finem.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/696/.
Chicago
Quarles, Francis. “Respice Finem.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/quarles/696/.
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