| 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. |