The Night Mail and Other Poems

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If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;

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If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

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If you can meet with triumph and disaster

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And treat those two imposters just the same;

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If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

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Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

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Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,

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And stoop and build 'em up with worn out tools;

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If you can make one heap of all your winnings

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And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

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And lose, and start again at your beginnings

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And never breath a word about your loss;

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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

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To serve your turn long after they are gone,

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And so hold on when there is nothing in you