"Invictus", the 1888 Victorian poem by William Ernest Henley, has inspired many a peoples of nations, including Nelson Mandela, and Clint Eastwood who made a Hollywood movie by the same name on the same subject in South Africa.
"Out of the night that covers me,Invictus (2009) - Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Dir: Clint Eastwood
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."