WEEP NO MORE FOR WHAT IS PAST

(from "The Cruel Brother," 1630)

by: Sir William Davenant (1606-1668)

EEP no more for what is past,

For time in motion makes such haste

He hath no leisure to descry

Those errors which he passeth by.

If we consider accident,

And how repugnant unto sense

It pays desert with bad event,

We shall disparage Providence.

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