President Nelson Mendela and Springbok Rugby Team Captain- Francois Pienaar.(Rugby World Cup in 1995 hosted by South Africa)
(in the movie- Invictus. Morgan Freeman & Matt Damon)Also inspired by Invictus, the poem.
"Invictus"
is a short Victorian poem by the English poet- William Ernest Henley (1849–1903).
Our 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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