...in a low, level voice, which seemed to her curiously passionless, he repeated the lines in question: "Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods there be, For my unconquerable soul. "In the fell clutch of circumstance, . I have not winced nor cried...

...lines, the finest assertion of the Free Will I have ever seen : " Out of the night that covers me, " 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,...

...of response in every true, manly soul, than Henley's lyric : " Out of the dark that covers me Blaok as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul." Courage, sheer, dauntless, inexhaustible, was the supreme glory of Calvary, the one thing which all...

...knowledge of the Law, or closer conformity with it. CHAPTER IX. THE EGO. "Out of the night that shelters me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods there be For my unconquerable soul." The much repetition of the foregoing pages would be unpardonable...

...highest aim, chanting, perhaps, in the spirit, if not in the words of the Spartan poet of to-day : — " Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods there be For my unconquerable soul." Ay, thanks to the Inspirer, to the darkling Supporter and Sustainer,...

...change. I steadier step when I recall That, if I slip, Thou dost not fall. Arthur Hugh dough INVICTUS Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit...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,...

...promise you that life will always seem a far greater thing to you forever after. Here is the poem: "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....

...treatment : while his discharge was followed by the composition of his best-known poem, reading thus : "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,...

...western beach The surge and thunder of the Odyssey. WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY 842. Invictus b. 1849 ^~\UT of the night that covers me, ^-^ Black as the pit...nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbow'd. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade,...

...of defeat, as the splendid defiance of this modern outburst of the stoic mood makes evident : — " Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit...thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. 1 Cf. Goethe's " Prometheus " : — Prometheus. Vermocht Ihr zu scheiden Mich von mir selbst? * * *...