...like a winter wind whistling hollowly through an abandoned chateau. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT. MADAME BOVARY For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER I can tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. CARL SANDBURG...

...if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. ( "Barbara Frietchie" ) For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been! " ( "Maud Muller" ) Longfellow, the most-quoted American poet because he so abounds...

...being a storyteller, ladies and gentlemen. What a Waste players got the least out of their talent? "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.' " John Greenleaf Whittier probably wasn'ta sports fan, but he should have been. Mad...

...Jersey, on 30 December 1873 and stayed with the Blackwells. 3. John Greenleaf Whittier, "Maud Muller": "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, \ The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'" 4. Gerrit Smith (1797-1874), ECS's first cousin, was a reformer and philanthropist...

...a failure. Amnnnnkkkkkk! (Game show buzzer.) Wrong answer. You just need conditioning and patience. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" —John Greenleaf Whittier, poet, essayist Be open to solutions that you have not...

...AFTERWORD: Reflections Before Good-bye 213 Acknowledgments 217 Index 227 PART ONE 1 he four 1 Kings For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER CHAPTER ONE Saying tne four l hings Please forgive me. I...

...do? It gives you loads of time to think, "It might have worked." To quote John Greenleaf Whittier: For of all sad words of tongue or pen. The saddest are these: "It might have been. " You grow old, collecting and nursing a multitude of regrets. Why didn't I do this?...

...revenue, the future titles, that would never be realized. What was that line? That line of poetry? Yes: "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been.' " That had been the story of the Red Sox for more than eighty years: Might-have-beens....

...be right, Kelvin sent through their physical contact. It was the only way his mind could touch hers. 'For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been! " ' "Where did that come from?" Myrthe asked, trembling as his fingers brushed her...

...writer some day." CHESSMAN: (HE sighs.) She never did live long enough to read our books. WHITTIER: "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'" (Silence except for the sound of the clock.) CHESSMAN: Look, we've come close before....