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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +title: "If by Rudyard Kipling" |
| 3 | +date: 2019-01-12T22:14:57-06:00 |
| 4 | +tags: ["poetry", "life"] |
| 5 | +draft: false |
| 6 | +--- |
| 7 | + |
| 8 | +If you can keep your head when all about you |
| 9 | +Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, |
| 10 | +If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, |
| 11 | +But make allowance for their doubting too; |
| 12 | +If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, |
| 13 | +Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, |
| 14 | +Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, |
| 15 | +And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; |
| 18 | +If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; |
| 19 | +If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster |
| 20 | +And treat those two impostors just the same; |
| 21 | +If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken |
| 22 | +Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, |
| 23 | +Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, |
| 24 | +And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools: |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +If you can make one heap of all your winnings |
| 27 | +And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, |
| 28 | +And lose, and start again at your beginnings |
| 29 | +And never breathe a word about your loss; |
| 30 | +If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew |
| 31 | +To serve your turn long after they are gone, |
| 32 | +And so hold on when there is nothing in you |
| 33 | +Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’ |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, |
| 36 | +Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, |
| 37 | +If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, |
| 38 | +If all men count with you, but none too much; |
| 39 | +If you can fill the unforgiving minute |
| 40 | +With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, |
| 41 | +Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, |
| 42 | +And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son! |
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