Tuesday, November 4, 2008

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on 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 bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twiseted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
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 are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothin 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 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 second' 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!   

如果 
  ——吉卜林【英】给儿子的诗  
如果在众人六神无主的之时,
你能镇定自若而不是人云亦云;
如果在被众人猜忌怀疑之日,
你能自信如常而不去妄加辩论;
如果你能够等待,却不因此而厌烦,
或者被人欺骗,却不以血还血,
或者被人所恨,却不以牙还牙,
同时,依然不愠不火,谈吐不凡。
如果你有梦想,又能不迷失自我;
如果你有神思,又不致走火入魔;
如果在成功中能不忘形于色,
而在灾难之后也勇于咀嚼苦果;
如果听到自己说出的奥妙,被无赖
歪曲成面目全非的魔术而不生怨艾;
如果看到自己追求的美好,受天灾
破灭为一摊零碎的瓦砾,也不说放弃;
如果你辛苦劳作,已是功成名就,
为了新的目标你依然冒险一搏,哪怕功名成乌有;
即使惨遭失败,也仍要从头开始,
而丝毫不去计较个人得失;
如果你的整个身心已经灰飞烟灭,
而你驱使其留下的德行能流芳百世;
那么坚持到底吧——即使你的内心已空无一物,
只能听到意志的呼唤:"坚持!"
如果你跟村夫交谈而不离谦恭之态,
和王侯散步而不露谄媚之颜;
如果你的敌手和挚友都无法伤害你,
如果所有人都指望你,却无人全心全意;
如果你肯花六十秒进行短程跑,
去填满生命中无情的每一分钟,
那么你既可以拥有整个世界和其万物,
更重要的是,你就是个真正的男子汉了,我的孩子!

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