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Invictus
A poem by William Ernest Henry

Listen to the film extract. Complete the missing words and then check your answers.
Francois Pienaar: Can we see the President's cell?
Guard: Yes, of course. Now the number on the door 46664 means he was the 466th prisoner to be interned here in 1964. We've done it up just the way it was. Come with me.


Out of the night that me,
as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable .

In the fell clutch of
I have not nor aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of
My head is , but unbowed.

Beyond this of wrath and
Looms but the of the shade,
And yet the menace of the
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the ,
How charged with the scroll.
I am the master of my :
I am the of my .