成事在人（Invictus）

W.E•亨利

(潘學峰博士翻譯）

掙開包裹我的夜色，

黑幕深不可測，

我要感謝諸神賜予我

無可征服的魂魄。

即便情境已無從把握

我既不退縮，也不悲嚎失聲。

面對命運的沉重擊打

我即使頭破血流，但仍然挺拔如松。

用飽含憤怒的淚眼直視那，

隱約可見的恐怖陰影，

和歲月的威脅

對此，我始終都將無懼以待。

重要的並不是出路太少，

也不是命定的煎熬，

重要的是我是命運的主人：

我是靈魂的引導。

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Invictus

W.E. Henley

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 fell 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.