此詩摘于《Somthing for Nothing》。

作為該書的終篇，我在讀罷合上最后一頁時(shí)，心中戚戚，久久不能平靜，許是為詩，許是為書，許是為書中的那個(gè)躊躇滿志現(xiàn)已不知何處的青年才俊。很喜歡這首詩，對(duì)于作者“它幾乎承載了現(xiàn)在的我所有的希望，所有的信仰”，對(duì)于我它充滿智慧和力量，摘錄至此，監(jiān)督自己以誦之。

IF

By Rudyard Kipling

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 doulbt you,But make allowance for their doulbting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or being lied about,dont deal in lies,Or being hated dont give way to hating,And yet dont 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 those 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 brathe 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 you neither foes nor locing friends can hurt you;

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run,yours is the earth and everything thats in it, and which is more, you will be a man,my son!

如果

吉卜林【英】 芮成鋼【譯】

如果，身邊的人都失去理智，并將其歸咎于你，而你卻能保持清醒；

如果，所有人都懷疑你，而你卻能自信如常，并體諒他們對(duì)你的懷疑；

如果，你能耐心等待，不急不躁，或遭人誹謗憎恨，卻不去以牙還牙；既不去光彩照人，亦不去才華橫溢；

如果你能去夢(mèng)想，但卻不做夢(mèng)想的奴隸；

如果你能去四辯，而不是為了思考而思考；

如果，你能以平常心坦然面對(duì)失敗和凱旋，并懂得：它們其實(shí)都是幻象；

如果，你能忍受你說出的真理，被無賴們故意曲解演繹，用以誤導(dǎo)愚昧人群；或者，眼睜睜看著你為之付出一切的珍愛，被人摧毀，然后俯拾碎片，用老舊的工具去細(xì)細(xì)修補(bǔ)；

如果你敢把所有贏來的人生籌碼堆在一起，冒險(xiǎn)一搏，卻一把輸光，然后從零開始，永不言??；

如果，你能讓筋疲力盡的意氣與肌體，依然聽從于你僅存的意志，告訴自己一定要“堅(jiān)持！”

如果你能和百姓打成一片，卻拒絕隨波逐流；或與王者同行，卻不忘，庶民本色；

如果，無論是宿敵還是摯友，都無法傷害到你；

如果所有人對(duì)你都很重要，但又沒有誰那么重要；

如果，你能惜時(shí)如金，分秒必爭；那么，這個(gè)世界就全都屬于你，而你，我的兒子，也終將長大成人。