I'm stoked. I purchased a hoodie sweatshirt from some fellow frogs over at Forged Clothing a while back and enjoyed wearing it quite a bit. I left it in an airport bar in a rush to grab a plane after having a couple more scotch's than I'd planned for....
Anyway, I finally got around to purchasing a new hoodie and I also decided to buy a couple of "invictus" T-Shirts. Most comfortable shirts I've ever worn. Congrat's guys on putting together such fantastic product!
I would strongly encourage all of you to stop by their website and check them out.
The real reason for this post (and no, it's not to pimp out Forged!) is to share the inspiration for one of their lines of clothing called "Invictus".
(From the Forged Clothing website about this name)...
"The poem (INVICTUS) was originally written by William Henley in 1875 and has been used in countless instances of people overcoming adversity, including being read to the Country after 9/11 in a national address by then Secretary of State Colin Powell. In our shirt of the same name, the entire poem runs horizontally across the chest between the wings, and the eighth line of the poem “Bloodied, but unbowed” is framed across the back of the shirt."INVICTUS
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.
William Henley 1875
