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To: Soaring Feather; All

Good Morning Soaring Feather and All,
Here is one of my favorites.

Invictus
Out of the night that covers me
Black as the Pit from pole to pole
I thank whatever gods maybe
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 punishment the scroll
I am the Master of my fate
I am the Captain of my soul.

— William Earnest Henley


605 posted on 07/18/2007 6:28:43 AM PDT by Lost Dutchman ("Weep for the future Na'Toth, Weep for us all." (G'Kar-Babylon 5))
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To: Lost Dutchman

Bravo! Wonderful poem!

Thank You.


606 posted on 07/18/2007 6:31:53 AM PDT by Soaring Feather (I Soar 'cause I can....)
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