This poem was referred to in the movie "Invictus" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1057500/
Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela copies the poem on a letter and gives it to Matt Damon acting as the captain of the South African national Rugby team.
He tells Matt Damon that the poem inspired him and was what kept him alive and in good spirit while he was imprisoned. He tells him to use the words as inspiration so that he may lead himself, his team and his country to victory in the World Cup.
Beautiful movie.
Invictus by William Ernest Henley
| 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. |
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