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+ | ====== Some Collected Poerty ====== | ||
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+ | **William Shakespeare A Midsommer Nights Dream** | ||
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+ | If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here. While these visions did appear. | ||
+ | And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: | ||
+ | And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; | ||
+ | Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends. | ||
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+ | **Rudyard Kipling's IF** | ||
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+ | 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:\\ | ||
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+ | If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,\\ | ||
+ | If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;\\ | ||
+ | If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster\\ | ||
+ | And treat those two impostors just the same;\\ | ||
+ | If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken\\ | ||
+ | Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,\\ | ||
+ | Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,\\ | ||
+ | And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:\\ | ||
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+ | If you can make one heap of all your winnings\\ | ||
+ | And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,\\ | ||
+ | And lose, and start again at your beginnings\\ | ||
+ | And never breath a word about your loss;\\ | ||
+ | If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew\\ | ||
+ | To serve your turn long after they are gone,\\ | ||
+ | And so hold on when there is nothing in you\\ | ||
+ | Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"\\ | ||
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+ | If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,\\ | ||
+ | Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,\\ | ||
+ | If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;\\ | ||
+ | If all men count with you, but none too much,\\ | ||
+ | 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!\\ |