Tuesday 23 March 2010

INVICTUS dan NELSON MANDELA

Bayangkan selama 27 tahun Mandela dijerumuskan ke dalam penjara kerana perjuangannya menentang apartheid di Afrika Selatan. Dia tidak mengalah, berdegil dan keras berpegang kepada prinsip perjuangan idealismenya. Salah satu inspirasi yang memperkukuh kedegilannya , dan memelihara dirinya daripada menjual jiwa ( soul ) kepada pihak yang berkuasa di atas ialah puisi berjudul "INVICTUS " oleh 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 full 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 hour 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








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