HAPPY THE MAN

        - 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.

- for my friend Tomorrow Man. Today's reply to Nostalgia and the Future.  :)