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To: HG who wrote (5425)2/19/2000 6:55:00 AM
From: nihil   of 13018
 
Hello HG. I dedicate this post with great respect to John McCain -- nihil

William Ernest Henley. 1849?1903

Invictus (Hanoi Hilton)

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.


Untermeyer, Louis, ed. 1920. Modern British Poetry
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