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5th May '13 8:15:43 AM TheDesigner

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* [[http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/william-ernest-henley/invictus/ "Invictus"]] by William Ernest Henley embodies this trope. He wrote it when he was 14 years old, and he was getting a leg amputed because he had contracted tuberculosis in the bone. He almost had the other one amputed as well, but he protested and got another doctor to save it after lengthy surgery over that leg's foot. He didn't lose his spirit, though, and he kept a strong, jovial and masterful attitude throughout his life; so much so, that family-friend Robert Louis Stevenson was so impressed with his maimed yet commanding figure that he served as inspiration for Long John Silver.

-->[[DarkestHour Out of the night that covers me]],\\
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,\\
I thank whatever gods may be\\
[[InvokedTrope For my unconquerable soul]].\\
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[[IronWoobie In the fell clutch of circumstance\\
I have not winced nor cried aloud.\\
Under the bludgeonings of chance]]\\
My head is bloody, but unbowed.\\
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[[DespairEventHorizon 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.\\
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[[ScrewDestiny It matters not how strait the gate,\\
How charged with punishments the scroll]],\\
[[AntiNihilist I am the master of my fate:\\
I am the captain of my soul]].

21st Mar '13 5:17:05 AM LordGro

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18th Jun '12 12:29:12 AM FELH2

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9th Nov '11 12:52:18 PM darsint

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