Rudyard Kipling

IF / DAC

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 !riumph and "isaster
And treat those two imposters #ust the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
!wisted 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 wornout 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
!o serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
$%cept the &ill which says to them: '(old on)'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with *ings 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
&ith si%ty seconds' worth of distance run,
+ours is the $arth and everything that's in it,
And which is more you'll be a ,an, my son)
"ac- e.ti calm, c/nd to0i se pierd cu firea
1n #urul t-u, .i spun c-i vina ta;
"e cre2i /n tine, chiar c/nd Omenirea
3u crede, dar /i cre2i .i ei cumva;
"e .tii sa.tep0i, dar f-r- tevatur-;
"e nu de2min0i minciuni min0ind, ci drept;
"e nu r-spun2i la ur- tot cu ur-
4i nici prea bun nu pari, nici prean0elept;
"ac- vise2i dar nu0i faci visul astru;
"e po0i s- speri dar nu0i faci #indul 0el;
"ent/mpini .i !riumful .i "e2astrul
,ereu senin .i /n acela.i fel;
"ac- supor0i s-0i ve2i vorba sucit-
"e .arlatan, ce0i spurc- al t-u rost;
"e po0i ca munca vie0ii, n-ruit-,
5o faci de lanceput precum a fost;
"ac-ndr-2ne.ti agonisita0i toat-
5o pui, f-r'a clipi, peun singur 2ar
4i, daco pier2i, s-ncepi ca prima dat-
6-rs- te pl/ngi cu un oftat m-car;
"e .tii, cu nerv, cu inim-, cu v/n-,
"rept s- r-m/i, c/nd ele #une nus,
4i stai tot d/r2, c/nd nu mai e st-p/n-
"ec/t 7oin0a ce le 0ine sus;
"ac-ntre 8egi 0ie firea neschimbat-
9a .in ,ul0ime nu str-in de ea;
Amic sau nu, de nu pot s- teabat-;
"e to0i de0i pas-, dar de nimeni prea;
"ac- 0ie dat, prin clipa 2drobitoare,
5- treci .i so /ntreci, mereu bonom,
atunci: a ta e :umea asta mare
.i, mai mult, fiul meu: atunci e.ti Om)
!raducere de "an "u0escu.