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I posted this as a daily quote back in 2018.\u00a0 But I like it, so I’m posting it again.\u00a0 It speaks to a resiliency in the human soul that I admire.\u00a0 I recently found out that Henley was the inspiration for the Long John Silver character in Treasure Island.\u00a0 Robert Louis Stevenson was another talented character from Victorian England.\u00a0 That they were friends is interesting.\u00a0 I’ll have to do some reading on both of them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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INVICTUS<\/span><\/p>\n

Out of the night that covers me,
\nBlack as the pit from pole to pole,
\nI thank whatever gods may be
\nFor my unconquerable soul.<\/p>\n

In the fell clutch of circumstance
\nI have not winced nor cried aloud.
\nUnder the bludgeonings of chance
\nMy head is bloody, but unbowed.<\/p>\n

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
\nLooms but the Horror of the shade,
\nAnd yet the menace of the years
\nFinds, and shall find me, unafraid.<\/p>\n

It matters not how strait the gate,
\nHow charged with punishments the scroll,
\nI am the master of my fate:
\nI am the captain of my soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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