Invictus (Charles West)
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- (Posted 2015-06-05) CPDL #35658:
- Editor: Charles West (submitted 2015-06-05). Score information: A4, 16 pages Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: I would appreciate notification by email (cghwest@yahoo.co.uk) of intention to perform this work
General Information
Title: Invictus
Composer: Charles West
Lyricist: William Ernest Henley
Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SAATTB
Genre: Secular
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
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English text
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.