If - Northern Lite

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 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!