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, weing 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 triumpf and disaster
And treat those two impostors jast the same
If you can bear to heat the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools
Or water the things your gave you life to broken,
And stoop and build'em up with wornout ...
