[guide.chat] Poem by Rudyard Kipling. If.
- From: "Judith Appleton" <judith.appleton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:43:02 -0000
If You can keep your Head,when all about You are loosing theirs, and blaming it
on You, If You can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance
too; If You can wait, and not be tired by waiting, or being lied about, Don't
deal in lies, or being hated, Don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too
good, or talk too wise: If You can dream, and not make dreams, Your maker; If
you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; If You can meet with Triumph,
and disaster, and treat those two impostors, just the same; If You can bear to
hear the truth you've spoken, twisted by Knaves, to make a trap for fools, or
watch the things you gave your life to, broken, and stoop and, build 'em up
with worn-out tools: If You can make one heap of all your winnings, and risk it
on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your Heart and
nerve, and Sinew, to serve your turn, long after they are gone, And so hold on,
when there is nothing in you, except the will that says to them: "hold on" If
You can talk to crowds, and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings-nor lose the
common touch,If neither foe nor Loving Friends, can touch you, If all men count
with you, but none too much; If you can fill the ungiving minutes,with sixty
seconds, worth of distance run, Yours is the earth, and everything that's in
it, And-which is more-you'll be a man, My Son!
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