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Author: William E. Henley
William Ernest Henley (1849 — 1903) was a British poet, writer, critic and editor, remembered most often for his 1875 poem "Invictus." A fixture in London literary circles, the one-legged Henley was the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's character Long John Silver.
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