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If, of all words of tongue and pen,The saddest are, 'It might have been,'More sad are these we daily see:'It is, but hadn't ought to be.

If, of all words of tongue and pen,The saddest are, ‘It might have been,’More sad are these we daily see:’It is, but hadn’t ought to be.
– Bret Harte

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