For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'

His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.