Morgan Freeman recites ’Invictus’ from memory on Charlie Rose

Morgan Freeman explains what Nelson Mandela is like and how the Nobel Peace Prize winner relied on this poem by William Ernest Henley for strength while imprisoned on Robben Island for 27 years. 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 Hor