Happy The Man

Antonella da Messina

Portrait of an Unknown Man

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.

Not Heaven itself upon the past has power,

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

~ John Dryden ~

I slept and dreamt

Oscar Edmund Berninghaus

The Faithful Ponies

Franz Marc

Dog Lying in the Snow

I slept and dreamt

I slept and dreamt
That life was joy –
I awoke and found
That life was duty –
I acted and behold
Duty was joy.

~ Rabrindranath Tagore ~

From tomorrow on, i shall be sad

John Kane

Blowing Bubbles

Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

Soap Bubbles

From tomorrow on, i shall be sad

From tomorrow on, i shall be sad -

From tomorrow on!

Today i will be gay.

What is the use of sadness - tell me that? -

Because these evil winds begin to blow?

Why should i grieve for tomorrow - today?

Tomorrow may be so good, so sunny -

Tomorrow the sun may shine for us again;

We shall no longer need to be sad.

From tomorrow on, i shall be sad -

From tomorrow on!

Not today, no! today i will be glad.

And every day, no matter how bitter it be,

I will say;

From tomorrow on, i shall be sad,

Not today!

~ Motele ~