Monday, September 20, 2021

Stirs the Soul

I was actually watching some boxing stuff
waiting on family to arrive
and on one of the intros
there was this ...
rather soul-stirring
and invigorating piece ...
kind of appropriate
at this juncture.

Invictus
by William Ernest Henley

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 matter not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

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