*https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51642/invictus
Writer William Ernest Henley a little known poet was he 'Invictus' * his claim to fame inspiration** the name of the game(s) A stoic due to illness & hospitalisation his poem *(s) & (life)became an inspirational name for the 'games' ,Mandela,RL Stevenson& Butterworth the composer..William's (born 1849 died 1903)Invictus' verse ,four abab quatrains, was written in 1875.
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