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: : I need to find a poem which starts something like this - "if you can keep your head while those around you are loosing theirs..." : : thanks for any help : Here is the poem: : : 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 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. : If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew : To serve your turn long after they have gone, : And so hold on when there is nothing in you : Except the Will which say 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 on 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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