Friday, October 12, 2012

INVICTUS



My required readings and textbooks for the first semester of freshman year. Hell Week is over and I have survived! After a week of sleepless nights and countless hours fretting over papers and poring over books, I I can rest!

Here is the poem that kept me going through all of it:

"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 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.


Here's to a good break!

Until always,

Lemonjuicesodapop

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