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Ron, I had to memorize this poem in grade 6!!
It really does say it all...........

SNIP
this poet was ill all his life i have read:
Invictus

William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me
black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
for my unconquerable soul.
In the felt 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,
and yet the menace of the years
finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
how charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Ronald Vetter  1936, dz PD 1984, carbidopa/levodopa, Mirapex, selegiline
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http://www.ridgecrest.ca.us/~rfvetter

Thanks Ron..............I had nearly forgotten these words.

All the best ........ Murray



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