"Invictus" by William Ernest Henley
Out of the night that covers
me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may
be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of
circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the
bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this
place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And
yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
It
matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the
scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.
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