March 7, 2005

Richard Kipling, "If"


If you can make one heap of all your winnings,
And risk it all at one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss;

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

-Richard Kipling
To read the full poem, click here.