Flower for the Day Daffodil 3-18-2020

Its a cloudy day here in the Heartland. We have several positive Covid 19 cases in our county so people we know are hunkered down. We are for sure. We are not enamored of Italy's ventilator triage where they only treat people under seventy. My mother's favorite saying was, "This too shall pass."

Last week we had one daffodil in the front yard. Now there are many. Here is the first.

      Invictus

By 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.

So there!