If—
BY RUDYARD KIPLING
(‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies)
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!
如果所有人都失去理智，咒篤你，
你仍能保持頭腦清醒；
如果所有人都懷疑你，
你仍能堅信自己，讓所有的懷疑動搖；
如果你能等待，不要因此厭煩，
為人所騙，不要因此騙人，
為人所恨，不要因此抱恨，
不要太樂觀不要自以為是。
如果你是個追夢人，
不要被夢主宰；
如果你是個愛思考的人，
不要以思想者自居；
如果你遇到勝利和挫折，
把兩者都當騙子看待；
如果你能忍受，你曾講過的事實，
被惡棍扭曲，用于蒙騙傻子，
或者，看著你用畢生去守護的東西被破壞，
俯下身去，用破舊的工具把它修補。
如果你在贏得無數(shù)桂冠之后，
孤注一擲再搏一次，
失敗過后，東山再起，
不要抱怨你的失??；
如果你能迫使自己，在別人走后，長久堅守陣地，
在你心中已空蕩蕩無一物，
只有意志告訴你：＂堅持?。?/p>
如果你與人交談，能保持風度，
伴王同行，能保持距離；
如果仇敵和好友都不害你；
如果所有人都指望你，卻無人全心全意；
如果你花60秒進行短程跑，
填滿那不可饒恕的一分鐘，
你就可以擁有一個世界，
這個世界的一切都是你的，
更重要的是，孩子，你是個頂天立地的人。
