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(the Bank of England Act 1998^[1] subsequently provided the necessary statutory authority).

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

Invictus by William Ernest Henley

(Gordon Brown's favourite poem)

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 (the Bank of England Act 1998<ref>[http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/quarterlybulletin/qb980201.pdf Peter Rodgers: ''The Bank of England Act, 1998'', Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin, May 1998]</ref> subsequently provided the necessary statutory authority).
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 : OUT of the night that covers me,<br>    Black as the Pit from pole to pole, <br>  I thank whatever gods may be<br>     For my unconquerable soul.<br>