Its speaker has suffered the "bludgeonings of chance" but has emerged "out of the night that covers me / Black as the Pit from pole to pole".
A poem written in response to this work by a man who served on the Quorum of the Twelve notes that "Men are as bubbles on the wave, / As leaves upon the tree" and asks "what of Him / Who bought thee with his blood?" That poem by noted Mormon poet Orson F. Whitney also asks this poem's speaker "Forsooth, / Who gave" a certain "place to thee?" This poem itself tells of how "the [►] horror of the shade" looms "beyond this place of wrath and tears", though its speaker notes that "the menace of the years" shall find him unafraid. Its speaker has suffered the "bludgeonings of chance" but has emerged "out of the night that covers me / Black as the Pit from pole to pole". For 10 points, identify this poem that ends "I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul", a work by William Ernest Henley that served to inspire both Francois Pienaar and Nelson Mandela.
A poem written in response to this work by a man who served on the Quorum of the Twelve notes that "Men are as bubbles on the wave, / As leaves upon the tree" and asks "what of Him /
"Invictus" [accept "To R. T. H. B."; hope you like the NACutie]