"IF" RACHEL & ROSS ...

"IF" by RUDYARD KIPLING

Way back when I graduated from high school, this was & still is a very famous poem written by Rudyard Kipling. It applies still today! I believe we even had to study it in English class along with Simon & Garfunkel's

 

"Bridge over Troubled Waters"

RACHEL & ROSS
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 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!"
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/Woman

my son/my daughter
--Rudyard Kipling

But back then, there was also a song by Bread called "IF" and it went like this:


The words in this YouTube video are from the poem by Rudyard Kipling and the song by Bread. When I listen to a lot of my "oldies", I can now think about them as IF to my Lord and Savior!

Lyrics to the song being song by Bread!

If a picture paints a thousand words, Then why can't I paint You? 

The words will never show the You I've come to know.

If a face could launch a thousand ships, Then where am I to go? 

There's no one home but You, You're all that's left me too.
And when my love for life is running dry, You come and pour Yourself on me.

If a man could be two places at one time, I'd be with You.

Tomorrow and today, beside You all the way.

If the world should stop revolving spinning slowly down to die, I'd spend the end with You.

And when the world was through,

Then one by one the stars would all go out,

Then You and I would simply fly away.

TOMORROW IS TUESDAY of TRIBUTE to TWINS

RACHEL & ROSS