The United States At 250 - Day 3

  Great Is Your Faithfulness 3  I am the man who has seen affliction      under the rod of his wrath; 2  he has driven and brought me      into darkness without any light; 3  surely against me he turns his hand      again and again the whole day long. 4  He has made my flesh and my skin waste away;      he has broken my bones; 5  he has besieged and enveloped me      with bitterness and tribulation; 6  he has made me dwell in darkness      like the dead of long ago. 7  He has walled me about so that I cannot escape;      he has made my chains heavy; 8  though I call and cry for help,      he shuts out my prayer; 9  he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones;      he has made my paths crooked. 10  He is a bear lying in wait for me,    ...
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Captain of My Kin

 (Derived from Invictus by William Ernest Henley)

Out of the night that covers me,

      Black from pole to pole,

I thank God who mighty is 

      I am His conquered soul.


In the clutch of circumstance

      I’ve neither winced nor cried aloud.

Under bludgeonings of chance

      My head is bloody & unbowed.


Beyond this place of wrath and tears

      Looms the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

      Still finds me unafraid.


It matters not how strait the gate,

      How charged the scroll within;

I am the master of my fate,

      The captain of my kin



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