[net.poems] Identification of Poem

john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley) (11/27/85)

P. Kaufman asks for identification of a fragment:

> If anyone out there knows where the following line(s) 
> originated, I would be grateful.

> "....I am the navigator of my destiny, the captain of my soul."

It is from _Invictus_, to my mind an awful poem, by (I think) William Ernest
Henley.  The lines actually read

		I am the master of my fate.
		I am the captain of my soul.

-- 
				Peace and Good!,
				    (Fr.) John Woolley
"Quid enim sunt servi Dei nisi quidem joculatores ejus, qui corda hominum
erigere debent et movere ad laetitiam spiritualem?" -- S. Franciscus