IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 14, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 28.

"IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN."

"It might have been." Why should we always sigh, As though the words related but to joy, And not to grief, as though they rang the knell To joy alone, as though the funeral bell Had always rung and gladness passed us by? Why not, when dark and threatening seems our sky, And dangers pass us when they seemed most nigh, Say of the peril past when all is well, "It might have been"?

The might-have-beens are many, and they lie Close to the borders of our fate; and why And how the choice is made we cannot tell; But when misfortune comes, let's try to quell Our fears, and of worse fortunes think, and cry, "It might have been."

—Philadelphia Ledger.