17-11-05, 09:07 PM
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 too
if you can wait and not be tired by waiting
or being lied about do not deal in lies
or being hated do not give way to hating
and yet do not look to good nor talk too wise
if you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue
or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch
if neither enemies nor loving friends can hurt you
if all men count with you but non too much
if you can fill the unforgiving minute
with sixty seconds worth of distance run
yours is the earth and everything that is in it
and - which is more - you will be a man my son ..........
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 do not deal in lies
or being hated do not give way to hating
and yet do not look to good nor talk too wise
if you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue
or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch
if neither enemies nor loving friends can hurt you
if all men count with you but non too much
if you can fill the unforgiving minute
with sixty seconds worth of distance run
yours is the earth and everything that is in it
and - which is more - you will be a man my son ..........

