• Author: Henley, William Ernest
• Editor: B-6591
• Newspaper: The Umpire volume 2
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• Date: 12 3 1913
• Tags:
• poetry

AMONG THE POETSTHE POWER OF WILLOut 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 or cried aloud; Under the bludgeonings of chance, My head is bloody but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the horrors of the shade; And yet the menace of the years Finds me, shall find me still unafraid. It matters not how straight the gate, How charged with punishment the scroll, I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. William Ernest Henley