Invictus
Posted by Prashant - 20/01/10 at 02:01:11 pmOut 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.
Beautiful lines from poem titled Invictus by William Ernest Henley. Clint Eastwood has recently directed a movie with the same name. It is said that this poem was a inspiration for Nelson Mandela as he was incarcerated in a tiny cell for 27 years.
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