Ifa Poem by Rudyard Kipling audio

good morning oh and in case i don’t see

you good afternoon good evening and good

night

if

by roger kipling

if you can keep your head

when all about you are losing theirs and

blaming it on you

if you can trust yourself when all men

doubt you but make allowance for their

doubting to

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 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 them 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

[Music]

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 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 60 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

[Music]

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