《Invictus》(By 威廉 Ernest Henley)

影片中，曼德拉在監獄裡讀過的威廉 Ernest Henley寫的《Invictus》,恰是對這位南非民族英雄、偉大領袖自身的生動寫照。

Invictus

By 威廉 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.

不可征服

透過覆蓋我的夜色，我看見黑暗層層疊疊。
感謝上帝賜予我，不可征服的靈魂。

就算被地獄緊緊拽住，我也從未退避哀求，
遭受命運的重重打擊，我滿頭鮮血，卻頭顱昂起。

在憤怒和悲傷的塵世外，聳立的不只是恐怖的影子，
但面對未來的威脅，你會發現，我無所畏懼。

無論命運之門多麼狹窄，也無論承受怎樣的懲罰。
我，是我命運的主宰，
我，是我靈魂的統帥！