" I N V I C T U S"" I N V I C T U S"
by William Ernest Henley
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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....
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In the Fell Clutch of Circumstance
I have Not Winced Nor Cried Aloud.
Under the Bludgeonings of Chance
My Head is Bloody but Unbowed..
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Beyond this Space of Wrath and Tears
Looms but the Horror of the Shade
And Yet, the Menace of the Years
Finds, and Shall Find Me Unafraid..
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It Matters Not, How Strait the Gait
How Charged With Punishments, the Scroll
I, Am the Master of My Fate..
I, Am the Captain of My Soul.....!
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William Ernest Henley was born in Gloucester,
England, on August 23, 1849. He was one of five sons of
a bookseller. At the age of 12, he became a victim of tuberculosis
of the bone but went on to successfully pass the Oxford examination
And graduate in 1867. Although he was a cripple and suffered
horribly all of his life, he was able to lead an active life for
nearly 30 years as a poet, editor and literary critic. He finally
succumbed at age 54 on June 11, 1903. He wrote his famous
"Invictus" from a hospital bed.
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The bell at the top of the page is the "Liberty Bell" located in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, USA.
Story of the
"Liberty Bell"....
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