Feinberg/Whitman 
Box 42 Folder 65
Notes and Notebooks
Notes--Reference
Undated 
Dryden, John--quotation654
1888 14 August Quotation from Dryden. A.MS. (1p. 6 1/2 x 19 1/2 cm.)

Written in ink on a slip torn from the top of a lined piece of
 stationery, with Traubel's notation in upper corner (See notes
Aug. 14 1888), 25 words: 

Not heaven itself upon the past has power, 
But what has been has been.--& I have had 
my hour. 
Horace, translated (improved)
by Dryden[*see 
notes 
Aug. 14
1888*]

Not heaven itself upon the past had power, 
But what has been has been- & I have had 
my hour. 
Horace translated (unproved) 
by Dryden