Invictus (Barbara Rosen)
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- (Posted 2024-01-12) CPDL #78722:
- Editor: John Hetland (submitted 2024-01-12). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 235 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Invictus
Composer: Barbara Rosen
Lyricist: William Ernest Henley
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SABB
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
Composed: 2006
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Original text and translations
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.