We are watching the film Invictus in 5th period; true story of the football team in South Africa when Mandela became President. It's an inspiring story, an inspiring film and it is based on an inspiring poem and it has carried me through this week. May you also be inspired.
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 Ernest Henley
Love that poem, as always. Haven't seen the movie...
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