IF

If you can keep your head,    
When all about you.   
Are loosing theirs and blaming it on you    
If you can trust yourself     
When all men doubt you,   
But make allowances for their doubting too   
If you can wait and not be tired of waiting,    
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,   
Or being hated, don't give away hating,

If you can dream   
And not make your dreams your master;    
If you think   
And not make your thoughts your aim;   
If you can meet triumph and disaster   
And treat those two imposters just the same;    
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 talk to crowds,   
And keep your virtues,   
Or walk with kings,   
Nor lose the common touch   
If you can fill the unforgiving minute,   
With sixty seconds worth of distance run;  

Yours is the earth and everything in it

         -Tom-