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 think-and not make thoughts your aim:
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:
If your an 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 worn-out tools
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and starg again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve you 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!
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!
