If
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 impostors 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 worn-out 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 breathe 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 Kipiling
I lepsi prevod nego sto ga je neko ovde vec postavio
Ako
Ako mozes da sacuvas svoju glavu kad svi oko tebe gube svoje i okrivljuju te za to;
Ako mozes da verujes sebi kad svi u tebe sumnjaju,i cak pridodajes njihovim sumnjama;
Ako mozes da cekas , a da ti ne dosadi cekanje,
ili ako si prevaren,da ne lazes,ili ako si omrznut,da ne mrzis.
A pored svega toga da ne izgledas predobar ili premudar;
Ako mozes da sanjaris a da snovi ne ovladaju tobom;
Ako mozes da razmisljas a da ti mastanje ne bude cilj;
Ako mozes da se suocis sa uspehom i neuspehom
i da smatras te dve varalice kao da su potpuno iste;
Ako mozes da podneses kad cujes da su istinu koju si izrekao
izvrnuli nitkovi da bi napravili zamku za budale,
ili da posmatras propast onoga cemu si posvetio ceo zivot,
i da pogrbljen sa dotrajalim alatom opet novo stvaras;
Ako mozes da stavis na gomilu sve sto imas,
i da bacis na kocku i izgubis, i opet pocnes ispocetka,
i nikad ne izustis rec o tom svom gubitku;
Ako mozes da prisilis svoje srce i nerve i tetive
da te sluze dugo iako ih vise nemas,
i tako izdrzis kad nema niceg u tebi ,
sem volje koja ti dovikuje ,,Istraj''!
Ako mozes da razgovaras sa najnizima,
i da sacuvas svoje dostojanstvo,ili da setas sa kraljevima,
a da ne izgubis razumevanje za obicne ljude;
Ako ni neprijatelji ni prijatelji ne mogu da te uvrede;
Ako te svi cene,ali ne suvise;
Ako mozes da ispunis jedan nezaboravan minut sadrzajem koji traje sezdeset sekundi,
TVOJA JE ZEMLJA I SVE STO JE NA NJOJ, I IZNAD SVEGA BICES COVEK,SINE MOJ!