StoryTitle("caps", "If") ?>
by Rudyard Kipling
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If you can keep your head when all about you", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But make allowance for their doubting too,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or being hated, don't give way to hating,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If you can dream and not make dreams your master,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If you can think and not make thoughts your aim;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And treat those two impostors just the same;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If you can make one heap of all your winnings", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And lose, and start again at your beginnings", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And never breath a word about your loss;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To serve your turn long after they are gone,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And so hold on when there is nothing in you", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Except the Will which says to them: \"Hold on!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or walk with kings nor lose the common touch,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If all men count with you, but none too much,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If you can fill the unforgiving minute", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And which is more you'll be a Man, my son!", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>