It's one I quote from regularly ( I'm in the security industry in the UK) my dad was in the British Army for 20 years ,,, this poem is about being a man I think Dennis Nailed it
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 And never breathe 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, my son!
The greatest recitation of this poem I've ever heard,,,, the Michael Caine version is lovely but this is just perfect. This poem had meant so much to so many men and women over the years,,, it's wonderful to see it still rings as true today as it ever did. I would love to hear Owen Wilson recite this.
Jocko and Spokenverse both do a great job too. Caine and Hopper actually both make mistakes. They aren't meaningful, but I've memorized the poem so they stand out.
@@kungfoochicken08 Yeah they did,, especially Michael Caine,,, but the message is so powerful,, most would say it's wasted on the last coupla generations,, but I'm not sure about that.
I'm English and this is one of the best recitations of If I heard. It's delivered in the manner of interlocution rather than recitation and the ending falls just right.
Have heard the earlier milk run episodes...........but the ossymyso ones are so much better. 1hr long, inventive comedy and music from up and coming comedians from 2004 that you see now. Mixed brilliantly with out there mixes by dj ossymyso. Wish more was available.
I have lived this. After my Dad passed, I stood alone, facing formidable foes, I doubted myself, I had to dig deep to conquer these evil forces. I won. I discovered this wise poem, years later.
My father just passed recently and I'm in a similar situation: surrounded on all sides by problems. Stories like yours give me hope at this time. I hope that you are in a better place now, and that in years time I will be too.
I found copies and copies of this poem in my father's military footlocker. A sharecropper son , mother died in the greenville flood , under the ocean in the Pacific during ww2 at the age of 16 . I think this was my father's education. What a good thing .
This read is terrible. Terrible compared to Sir Michael Caine. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sqOgyNfHl1U.html&start_radio=1&rv=sqOgyNfHl1U&t=2
