If

If you can keep your head

While all about you

People are losing theirs

And blaming you



If you can trust yourself

When everybody doubts you

And make allowance

For their doubting too



If you can wait

And not get tired of waiting

And when lied about

Stand tall, don't deal in lies



And when hated

Don't give in to hating back

Don't need to look so good

Don't need to talk too wise



If, if you can dream

And not make dreams your master

If you can think

And not make intellect your game



If you can meet with

Triumph and disaster

And treat those two imposters

Just the same



If, if you can force your heart

And nerve and sinew

To serve you

After all of them have gone



And so hold on

When there is nothing in you

Nothing but the will

That's telling you to hold on, hold on



If, if you can bear to hear

The truth you've spoken

Twisted and misconstrued

By some smug fool



Or watch your life's work

Torn apart and broken down

And stoop to build again

With worn out tools



If you can draw a crowd

And keep your virtue

Or walk with kings

And keep the common touch



If neither enemies nor loving friends

Can hurt you

If everybody counts with you

But none too much



If, if you can fill the journey

Of the minute

With sixty seconds worth of

Wonder and delight



Then the earth is yours

And everything that's in it

But more than that I know

You'll be alright, you'll be alright



'Cause you've got the fight

You've got the insight

You've got the fight

You've got the insight



You've got the fight

You've got the insight

You've got the fight

You've got the insight



You've got the fight

You've got the insight