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
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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
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