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@,SECTION FOUR, , , Use Cordova Smart Class Software on the smart board in class to appreciate this poem which is a sensitive piece, , for reading —a father telling his son to face all odds and be a man., , 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:, , 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:, , If you can make one heap of all your winnings, And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,, , And lose, and start again at your beginnings, word about your loss;, , And never breathe a, If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew, To serve your turn long after they are gone,, , n there is nothing in you, , And so hold on whe, to them: ‘Hold on!, , Except the Will whict, If you can talk our virtue, , ‘Or walk with K, , if neither foes nor loving [rier, If all men count with you but, If you can fill the unforgiving minut, With sixty seconds wrth of distance run,, Yours is the Earth and ever} thing that’s in it,, And - which is more - you 1] be a Man, my son!, , nmon touch, 1 il iurt you, , none too much;, , , , , Rudyard Kipling (1865, rich experience in life, which, , Jungle Book and Kim, , he later presented in his, , 1936): He worked as a newspaper reporter and, stories and poems. He is f, , , , , , Rudyard Kipling, , , , a part-time writer. This helped him gain, amous for his works such as The, , , , , , , , , , , on, Cordova Learning Sedes English-8 wee, , ————— eee ee