By Joseph Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
I f 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 away 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;
I f you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters 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;
I f 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 crows 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!
翻譯成中文就是假如——
假如妳能——在別人不知所措卻對妳橫加指責的時候，保持清醒的頭腦；
假如妳能——在所有人都懷疑妳的時候仍然相信自己，並能體諒別人對妳的懷疑；
假如妳能等待且又充滿耐心，
或者，從不用謊言去應付謊言，也不用仇恨去回擊仇恨，
既不故作正經也不誇誇其談。
假如妳充滿夢想——但絕不做夢想的奴仆；
假如妳勤於思考——卻不把思想當作目標；
假如妳能——在遇到勝利和困難時態度同樣平靜；
假如妳能容忍妳所說的真理，被無賴用作捕捉愚人的陷阱，
或看著妳所獻身的事業轟然倒塌，妳能屈身拾起殘破的工具把它們重建。
假如妳能——把所有贏來的籌碼
都押在壹把賭註上，
輸光後仍能重新再來，
且對輸贏只字不提。
假如妳能——在運氣不佳身心俱疲之時，
仍能全力以赴抓住機遇，
在壹無所有只剩意誌支撐的時刻，
咬牙堅持到底。
假如妳能——與三教九流為伍而獨善其身，
與王公貴族同行而不忘本色；
假如無論是敵是友不能傷害到妳；
假如所有的人對妳來說用等重要；
假如妳能把每壹分寶貴的光陰
化作六十秒的奮鬥——
妳就擁有了整個世界，
最重要的是——妳就成了壹個真正的人，我的孩子！