POEM TITLE

SONNET 18

Si Tanggang's homecoming

There's Been a Death in The Opposite House

The Road Not Taken

Monsoon History

If

If

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 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'em up with worm-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 lose;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which say to them: "hold on!"

 

 
BY Rudyard Kipling



 

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