out of the night that covers me
black as the pit from pole to pole
i thank whatever gods may be
for my unconquered soul
in the fell clutch of circumstance
i have not winced or 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
-william ernest henley
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