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| Thursday, April 19, 2007 |
I have never seen this poem before but I saw it courtesy of Uluisrare on my alma mater website www.fggcowerri.com and I think it was awesome. This poem tells how how to live. Be humble! Be moderate! I love it. I will keep it close to my heart cos its easy to get carried away by accolades or get stiffened due to obstacles but this poem will surely remind me of something I need: Balance!
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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!
- Rudyard Kipling
This has got to be one of the deepest poems I've seen in my life! |
posted by lala @ 9:04 AM  |
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It sure is...if we can but follow and abide with and in what Kipling has to say...this as I have always said, with and only the help of God can this be sustained!
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If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch..this is the part of d poem i like
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Me too, Pink. This poem is awesome!
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what set did you finish from at FGGC Owerri? I finished in 95!
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It sure is...if we can but follow and abide with and in what Kipling has to say...this as I have always said, with and only the help of God can this be sustained!