Posted by Kastellyn on October 27, 2000 at 05:51:12:
In Reply to: I wrote this poem IRL, but I'm going to apply it to a bard I'm playing. I just want to know if you all find it worthy to be on CF posted by The Champ o Hearts (if you know the title you know who it is) on October 25, 2000 at 22:21:04:
I named my first Knight character after this poem, because it really struck a chord in me at the time (2nd age, I believe...long time ago). He even had it in his description! Talk about a coincidence, my wife really liked the poem too (from before we even met), and we ended up naming getting a dog after we got married, and naming him Invictus. Invictus Out of the night that covers me, In the fell clutch of circumstance Beyond this place of wrath and tears It matters not how strait the gate,
by William Ernest Henley (1875)
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbow’d.
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.