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    Invictus - The Poem

    The movie Invictus (Latin for Unconquered) gets its name from the following poem by William Ernest Henley, which Nelson Mandela had written on a piece of scrap paper during his imprisonment.

    Invictus

    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.

                            - William Earnest Henley

    • 15 December 2009
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    Dec 15, 2009
    Diaan Mynhardt said...
    I remember reading this in high school. Great poem.

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