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From: rak1@magic.UUCP (Rajesh Kumar)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: Re: ...captain of my soul...
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Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 20:38:05 EST
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> I think it's something like this:
>
>
>    "It matters not how straight the gait
>     Nor charged with punishment thy soul.
>     I am the master of my fate;
>     I am the captain of my soul."
>
>
> I don't know where it's from, though. [Theodore Hope]

Close, but not quite.

I'm almost certain the first line is:-
"It matters not how strait the gate"
                    ^^^^^^     ^^^^
Here, "strait" means "narrow". Notice the spelling. The poet
(probably) has the 'strait gate' of the New Testament in mind.
I think the King James translation has in it somewhere something
like this:-

"Enter ye by the strait gate... "

Modern translations use different words.

     

                           -  Rajesh Kumar