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Thursday, December 24, 2009

The poem "If"

I really like this poem by Rudyard Kifling it really help me to be strong .Hope all the bloggers who read my blog will leave your comment. Here is the poem:
If
If you can keep you head when all about you
Are losing theirs blaming it on you ;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you ,
But make allowance for their doubting 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 , nor talk too wise ;

If you can dream-and not make dreams your master ;
If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim ;
If you can met 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 which says to them : “Hold on !”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue
Or walk with Kings – nor lose the common touch ;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you ;
If all men count with you , but none too much ;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run ,
Yours is Earth and everything that’s in it ,
And-which is more- you’ll be a man , my son !

Rudyard Kipling

This is really a nice poem.

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