In the fell clutch of circumstance,
I have not winced nor cried aloud:
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Source: Invictus: In Memoriam R. T. Hamilton Bruce.
-- William Ernest Henley, (Aug 23 1849-1903), English poet, critic, editor; His journals introduced the early work of many of the great English writers of the 1890s; best known for his poem Invictus.