If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!
“Go, silly worm, drudge, trudge, and travel,
Despising pain,
So thou may’st gain
Some honour, or some golden gravel:
But Death the while (to fill his number)
With sudden call
Takes thee from all,
To prove thy days but dream and slumber.”
Joshua Sylvester | “Omnia Somnia”