Grade 8 · Poem
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;
From "If—" by Rudyard Kipling (1910) · If—, Rudyard Kipling (1910)
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