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From: john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: Identification of Poem
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Date: Tue, 26-Nov-85 17:34:13 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 26 17:34:13 1985
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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