Dan Scavino posts "If" a poem by Rudyard Kipling. This is one I've reread many times during my days as an Anon.
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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 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 are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing 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 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!
My mom used to read this to me and my brothers in the 60s. Being a girl I still internalized it. When I raised my kids, esp my son, I kept it in mind as a roadmap. Our literature should be up lifting and give you something to reach for. That is what this poem has done for me and my family for generations. We need more of this.
This.
As a teacher, I had my 8th graders memorize this every year. Still love it.
Love Kipling. I have a set of his works.
PS If you have kids or grandkids, pls get his animal stories for them!
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/just-so-stories-for-little-children-by-rudyard-kipling/294455/#idiq=62946892&edition=24828724
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Dan Scavino ➖ "IF" ➖#96...Everything stated is for a reason. God bless, Patriots. - #2010...SNOW WHITE 6 NOW OFFLINE
https://greatawakening.win/p/19BtUbZ7gr/dan-scavino--if-96everything-sta/c/
One of my favorite poems. I read a testimony of a young man who had no male influence in his life. He came across Kipling’s “If” as a youth and he used it as his guide to be a good husband and father. Powerful
If if if if if if
https://www.c-span.org/clip/white-house-event/user-clip-obama-stutter/4603387
Its about Obama?
If if if if if if if if remix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poz6W0znOfk