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 .
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 .
By: john Dryden
