Lily Green at the Town Hall Hospital, Oxford, item 69

• April 7, 2017 17:56:17 Cheryl Ellsworth

  If.

  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 of

  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 have spoken. Twisted by the knaves

  to make a trap for fools.
  

  Or watch the thing you gave your

  life to, broken. And stoop and build

  it up with worn out tools
  

  If you can make one heap of all

  your winnings
  

  
  

  
  

• March 27, 2017 19:45:32 Ann Allan

  If
  

  
  

  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 of 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 have spoken. Twisted by the knaves to make a trap for fools.
  

  Or watch the thing you gave your life to, broken. And stoop and build it up with worn out tools
  

  If you can make one heap of all your winnings
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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