“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 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!”

Kipling's advice poem to his son. Opening and closing stanzas shown — the full poem is thirty-two lines and shapes character.