ALAN NORDSTROM'S BLOG
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Monday, October 29, 2012
RESPICE FINEM
Respice finem
means to heed your end,
An ancient admonition to regard
Your wandering from the rightful way and mend
Your errancy on courses so ill-starred.
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ALAN NORDSTROM
Licensed Verse Practitioner anordstrom@rollins.edu