Morgan Freeman recites 'Invictus' from memory on Charlie Rose

poem he from William erest Tenley yeah goad he uh that poem was his favorite poem and is as he explains to uh P one time when he lost courage when he felt like just giving up just lie down and not get up again he would recite it and it would give him the what he needed to keep going can you recite it if you can't there are some words out of the night that out of night that covers me black as the pit from pole to pole I learned it when I was in school yeah did you really yeah I think whatever God there may be for my uncomforable soul in the fellow clct of circumstance I have not cried aloud under the blings of fate my head is bloody but unbowed beyond this place of Wrath and tears looms but the shadow of the shade yet the minut of the years finds and shall find me unafraid God matters not how straight the gate now punishment charg the scroll I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul this is a magical moment in the history of this show to hear you do that wow thank you and he had it and he memorized it and it was his anchor yeah yeah when the winds were at their worst yeah yeah

Channel: Best of Humans

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Length: 1min 44sec (104 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 06 2013