Fat Boys: McKay's Buntings, Sarichef Island, Alaska. The whitest song bird in North America, McKay's Buntings primarily nest on just two remote islands in the Bering Sea, St. Mathews and Hall. In wintertime, they visit other islands as well as a few locations on Alaska's mainland. Their total population is just a few thousand birds.
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 - Happy the Man, 1685
So great was John Dryden’s (1631-1700) influence that England’s Restoration Period has been called The Age of Dryden. In 1668 he was named England’s first Poet Laureate.
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 - Happy the Man, 1685
So great was John Dryden’s (1631-1700) influence that England’s Restoration Period has been called The Age of Dryden. In 1668 he was named England’s first Poet Laureate.
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