1. "If-" (incomplete) <br />2. "For All We Have and Are" <br />3. "Mesopotamia" <br />4. "My Boy Jack" (about the death of his son John, in the First World War) <br />5. "If-" (Complete): <br />''If you can keep your head when all about you <br /> Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, <br />If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, <br /> But make allowance for their doubting too; <br />If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, <br /> Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, <br />Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, <br /> And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: <br /><br /> If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; <br /> If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; <br />If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster <br /> And treat those two impostors just the same; <br />If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken <br /> Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, <br />Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, <br /> And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools: <br /><br />If you can make one heap of all your winnings <br /> And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, <br />And lose, and start again at your beginnings <br /> And never breathe a word about your loss; <br />If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew <br /> To serve your turn long after they are gone, <br />And so hold on when there is nothing in you <br /> Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’ <br /><br /> If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, <br /> Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, <br />If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, <br /> If all men count with you, but none too much; <br />If you can fill the unforgiving minute <br /> With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, <br />Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, <br /> And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!''
