Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Happy the Man



Listen to:

Happy the Man (:33)

by Horace (translation by John Dryden)

performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode


Book III of Odes
Ode 29, section 8

 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.

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