Out of the night that covers me
black as pit from pole to pole
I think whatever gods may be
for my unconquerable soul.
In fell the 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 punishments the scroll
I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul.
-William Ernest Henley
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