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COMSUBBBS
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Location: Rapid City, SD | Subject: Does any one know the name...
...of a poem that used to be on high school graduation cards for boys? I don't know the title, or the author, but one of the lines goes something like:
"If you can keep your head when all about you
are losing theirs, etc." The last line is, "You'll be a man, my son.''
This doesn't sound exactly right, but, hopefully it will ring enough of a bell with someone here.
Cora
Edited by Corabelle 2008-04-11 4:38 PM
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Mess cooking
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The poem "If" was penned by Rudyard Kipling |
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Master and Commander
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Corabelle - 2008-04-11 4:37 PM
...of a poem that used to be on high school graduation cards for boys? I don't know the title, or the author, but one of the lines goes something like:
"If you can keep your head when all about you
are losing theirs, etc." The last line is, "You'll be a man, my son.''
This doesn't sound exactly right, but, hopefully it will ring enough of a bell with someone here
Cora
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Thw way I heard it was "If you can keep your head while all around you are losing theirs, You probably don't understand the situation." |
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COMSUBBBS
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Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: Does any one know the name...
See Cora, I can be a nice guy. :~)))
[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 all 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
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COMSUBBBS
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Location: Rapid City, SD | Subject: Thanks, Shaft -
And welcome aboard.
Cora |
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COMSUBBBS
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Location: Rapid City, SD | Subject: Ralph -
I kinda figured you could be. And, thank you.
Cora |
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Old Salt
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Location: Medina, OH | Subject: RE: Does any one know the name...
If I recall correctly, "IF" was always passed on to USNA senior midshipmen by one of their beloved instructors, Shorty Metzger. I have a copy of "IF" inserted in late brother's '57 yearbook. |
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Does any one know the name...
