INVICTUS BY WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Out of the night that covers me, In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, I am the captain of my soul. IF SO TOMORROW SAVES BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Heaven overarches earth and sea, Heaven overarches you and me: A little while and we shall be― · Please God-where there is no more sea Heaven overarches you and me, And all earth's gardens and her graves. The day break and the shadows flee. THE BALANCE BY GEORGE STERLING Let us be just with life. Although it bear The path we know-its end what traveller knows? Appraising life, let us at least be fair. Whose memory but holds the blinding bliss Say not, in hours when deepening shadows fall, ILLUSION BY NEVAH TREBOR Sundown is but the mortal eye's confusion, The spirit whose corporeal ember chills Bird-man, fly westward with the westering light,-Would you outdistance Night. THE WIND OF SORROW BY HENRY VAN DYKE The fire of love was burning, yet so low Then in the night, a night of sad alarms, |