The following is my favorite poem, "If," by Rudyard Kipling. The author wrote it for his 12-year-old son, and it's a must-read for all children, from 7 to 107. It's a great piece of work that expresses some timeless virtues. It's also taught all too infrequently nowadays. Enjoy.
If
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;
The Plastic Lady
The pundits were writing Plastic Lady's epitaph,
Pointing to lines going down on a graph.
She had a bad finish out west a little ways;
To socialist utopians, it was the end of days.
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