I need the author of:  They told him that destiny Controlled the way
that life should be, So with skillful hands he shaped his life and
called it destiny.

Astronaut Walt Cunningham once wrote that on an autograph card, but I
doubt that he himself created it: He put it in quotation marks, thus
indicating that he actually quoted someone else with a citation that
had a certain importance for him:
http://www.rrauction.com/content/pdf/245pdf/space.pdf

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