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
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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