看了《成事在人》,激励曼德拉度过三十年牢狱生活的诗歌印象深刻,名字也正是电影名,特别找来分享给大家:
Invictus
William Ernest Henley(1875)
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》
威廉姆•恩内斯特•亨里(1875)
透过覆盖我的夜色,
我看见黑暗层层叠叠。
感谢上帝赐予我,
不可征服的灵魂。
就算被地狱紧紧拽住,
我也从未退避哀求,
遭受命运的重重打击,
我满头鲜血,却头颅昂起。
在愤怒和悲伤的尘世外,
耸立的不只是恐怖的影子,
但面对未来的威胁,
你会发现,我无所畏惧。
无论命运之门多么狭窄,
也无论承受怎样的惩罚。
我,是我命运的主宰,
我,是我灵魂的统帅!