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Invictus

The poem describes a soul that remains unconquerable and unafraid in the face of adversity. Though circumstances are nightmarish and chance brings bludgeonings, the speaker's head remains unbowed. No matter the horrors or menaces that loom, the speaker is the master of their fate and captain of their soul.

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Invictus

The poem describes a soul that remains unconquerable and unafraid in the face of adversity. Though circumstances are nightmarish and chance brings bludgeonings, the speaker's head remains unbowed. No matter the horrors or menaces that loom, the speaker is the master of their fate and captain of their soul.

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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 matters 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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