Yesterday and To-Morrow
John Boyle O'Reilly
1844 to 1890
Joys have three stages, Hoping, Having, and Had:
The hands of Hope are empty, and the heart of Having is sad;
For the joy we take, in the taking dies; and the joy we
Had is its ghost.
Now, which is the better—the joy unknown or the joy we have clasped and lost?
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