...quite as " personal " as the following, included among the supplementary pieces in the same volume : " Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may. he For my unconqnerable soul. " In the fell clutch of circnnutance I have not winced nor cried aloud....

...be afraid. Man, will there cease to be force in this man's message, that is so simple and so true ? Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit...thank whatever Gods may be For my unconquerable soul. # # # # • Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace...

...covered with whitewash, in the pantry of the prison, formerly the chapel of the Hodesta, at Florence. ' Out of the night that covers me. Black as the pit...nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. " It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the...

...sincerity that word of William Ernest Henley, to me the greatest spiritual declaration in any language: "Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit...thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. I have not winced nor cried aloud, Beneath the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed....

...Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass." — TENNYSON. J+ NR ~ R 6 'ε V^ , head is bloody, but unbow'd." — HENLEY. These lines are, I grant, hard to read well and still harder...

...Sun, Irnos, his father, and became a hero and a beneficial deity. MARIE L. FAKRINGTON. UNCONQUERED. " Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit...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,...

...a wit, a humorist, and a sick man. Voila le chanteur i/e la nuit ! OUT OF THE NICHT THA T COVERS ME Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit...circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud : Under the bludgconings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but...

...arrived at a period in Rollo Podmarsh's career which might have inspired those lines of Henley's about "the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole." What with one thing and another, he was in an almost Job-like condition of despondency. I say " one...

...- forgive.' " " FORGIVENESS to the injured doth belong: They never pardon who have done the wrong." OUT of the night that covers me, Black as the pit...winced, nor cried aloud : Under the bludgeonings of life My head is bloody, but not bowed. It matters not how straight the gate, Nor what is written on...

...Ernest Henley, and inspired these lines, the finest assertion of the Free Will I have ever seen : " Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit...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,...