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@@ -4781,6 +4781,13 @@ scorpius
 	on opposite sides of the sky so they would never fight again.
 	As Scorpius rises in the east, Orion sets in the west.
 		[ 365 Starry Nights, by Chet Raymo ]
+scroll of punishment
+punish*
+	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 ]
 *scroll
 scroll *
 	And I was gazing on the surges prone,