![]() ![]() If you can take all of your winnings and bet them in one fell swoop and lose them all and then keep it a secret if you can use your heart and muscles and nerves to hold on even when there is only Will left: ![]() ![]() If you can dream but not let those dreams cloud your reason if you can think but still take action if you can deal with both triumph and disaster if you can handle it when others twist your truths into lies, or take the things you devoted your life to and turn them from broken into alive again: The poem's speaker says that if you can keep your head while those around you lose theirs if you can trust yourself when others doubt you if you can be patient and not lose your temper if you can handle being lied about but not lie yourself, and being hated but not hating yourself if you do not look too good or talk too wise: It is subtitled "'Brother Square-Toes' – Rewards and Fairies". The poem is a paean to British stoicism and masculine rectitude almost every line in each stanza begins with "If". ![]()
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