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Showing posts with label and playwright who was made Poet Laureate in 1668. Show all posts
Showing posts with label and playwright who was made Poet Laureate in 1668. Show all posts

Saturday, 31 May 2014

Happy the Man


Happy The Man 
by John Dryden
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.


strike a pose.