Friday, October 15, 2010

Invictus

Great movie and poem:

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.

2 comments:

Simsbumponablog said...

Those last two lines would make a great senior quote!

Anonymous said...

the last two lines sound like a quote in mr. millers room by Churchill. is it the same one?