Happy the Man

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.

Nor Heaven itself upon the past has power,

But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

John Dryden

Martin J. Sunderland

* 29.9.1952 Bingley, Yorkshire

† 16.5.2005 Shanghai, China