🔰Recitation of "If" by Rudyard Kipling| Ria Lamsal| Class 12| Poetry If|

RUDYARD KIPLING
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If, by Rudyard Kipling. 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 allowances for their doubting
too. If you can wait and not be tired by waiting or being lied about don't deal in lies 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 these 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 them up with worn out tools. If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it in one
turn of pitch and toss and lose and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about
your loss. If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they're
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 60 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 and which is more you'll be a woman my daughter.
Thank you.
