Anthologies

These are the Anthologies that we are required to memorize in ROTC. But I like to memorize them anyway. Especially "Invictus."

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Invictus

Out of the night that conquers me
Black as the pit from pole to pole
I thank whatever gods there be
For my unconquerable soul

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried out loud
Under the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloody but unbowed

Beyond this place of wrath and fear
Looms but the horror of the shade
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid

It matters not how straight the gate
How charged with punishments the scroll
I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul

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UNITY

I am only one but I am one
I cannot do everything
But I can do something
I what I can do
I ought to do
In what I ought to do
By the grace of God
I will do it.

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Secrecy Discipline

What I see
What I hear
What I feel
When I leave, I leave it here.

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Honor Code

A cadet does not lie
Cheat nor steal
Nor tolerate any such occurence.

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Humility

To be humble to superior is duty
To equal is courtesy
To inferior is nobleness
And to all is safety
It being a virtue in itself
Commandeth all that it stoops to.

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Well, "Don't Quit" is too long. I haven't memorized it yet. All that I have typed above is from memory by the way. If you know the true versions of these poems/anthologies, I'm sorry. Some punctuations may be missing since I just typed from memory.


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