Unconquered - Master of your own fate

"Invictus is a short poem by the British poet William Ernest Henley. The title is Latin for "Unconquered". It was first published in 1875."

INVICTUS

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 punishment the scroll,

I am the master of my fate,

I am the captain of my soul.

---William Ernest Henley