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Rudyard Kipling
1865 to 1936
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If you can keep your head when all about ______
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If ______ can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But ______ allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait ______ not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way ______ hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk ______ wise:
If you can dream - and not make ______ your master;
If you can think - and not ______ thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph ______ Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
______ you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
______ by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or ______ the things you gave your life to, broken,
And ______ and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you ______ make one heap of all your winnings
And risk ______ on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start ______ at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about ______ loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve ______ sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in ______
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,
______ all men count with you, but none too much;
______ you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ ______ of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And - which is more - you’ll ______ a Man, my son!