"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."

Invictus (1875)

William Ernest Henley was born #OTD in 1849. British poet, critic, and editor who in his journals introduced the early work of many of the great English writers of the 1890s. via @Britannica

Books by William Ernest Henley at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/369

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