stewarttodd.com » John Dryden http://www.stewarttodd.com Fri, 07 May 2010 06:16:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Happy the Man – John Dryden http://www.stewarttodd.com/2004/08/04/poem-of-the-month-august-2004/ http://www.stewarttodd.com/2004/08/04/poem-of-the-month-august-2004/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2004 13:23:44 +0000 Stewart http://stewarttodd.com/blog/?p=19 John Dryden
John Dryden
1631 – 1700

Happy the Man

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Be fair or foul or rain or shine
The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself upon the past has power,
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

translating Horace (65 – 8 BC), Odes, Book III, xxix

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