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Invictus

A Hello Doggo musical setting of William Ernest Henley’s “Invictus”.

Tempo: 128 BPM

Music, recording and artwork: CC0 1.0. Source-poem rights are separate: Poem is public domain. Source and provenance.

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Source poem by William 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.

Poem is public domain.

The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1900, ed. Arthur Quiller-Couch (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900), no. 842

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