lizards on toast » poetry http://toasterlizard.net Judge me if you want, we're all going to die. I intend to deserve it. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Invictus http://toasterlizard.net/archives/200 http://toasterlizard.net/archives/200#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:14:57 +0000 toasterlizard http://toasterlizard.net/blog/?p=200 2008-10-01 02:10:52

Invictus

“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 scrolls,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”
-William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)

I love this poem.   That is all.

out.

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