WHAT MAKES THE MAN?

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 6690, 20 August 1919, Page 3

WHAT MAKES THE MAN?

If you can keep your head when all about you Are los ; ng their heads 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 -oj sum '/nuoauddu 'Xup ibuj, 'lso.w 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 moot with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If yon 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 one one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start agah at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To servo your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when thero 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 tho 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! (From Rudyard Kipling's Poem 'Rewards and Fairies.')