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I have been looking for the poem with the lines "i am the master of my fate and the captain of my soul" can anyone help?
-- carla miners (cminers@earthlink.net), April 19, 1999
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 straight the gate How charged with punishment the scroll I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul. By William Ernest Henley
-- ilza (ilza@pobox.com), April 20, 1999.