WARD 14: 'IF' BY RUDYARD KIPLING

Submitted by ANGELnWard14 on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 18:55.
Ward 14: UPHOLD DEMOCRACY BY VOTING ON SEPTEMBER 08, 2009 FOR NELSON CINTRON JR

 

Rudyard Kipling
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 imposters 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 wornout 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 breath a word about your loss;
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 the 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 sixty 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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Nice post

  Thanks for the reminder. 
 

Thanks AngelinWard14 for the

Thanks AngelinWard14 for the Poem by Rudyard Kipling. 

Sorry I am not a Cintron supporter...but I liked the poem.

May the best candidate win...the one who will work to make Ward 14 a better place to live, work, get an education, feel safe to walk the streets, worship, etc. 

 

 

You are welcome, no need for apologies!

You are welcome! 

 I respect that!

IF.....

If God's willing and the creek don't rise....we'll figure it out some sunrise! 

Always Appreciative, "ANGELnWard14"