英国著名诗人鲁德亚德.吉卜林（Rudyard Kipling）
(1865~~~1936)
自觉的灵、英国著名诗人、散文家、小说家鲁德亚德.吉卜林（Rudyard Kipling，1865-1936）出生于印
度孟买，吉卜林的成就很高，他的作品简洁凝炼，充满异国情调，吉卜林的作品在20世纪初世界文坛产
生了很大的影响，由于吉卜林的“观察的能力、新颖的想象、雄浑的思想和杰出的叙事才能”，他于19
07年获得诺贝尔文学奖，成为英国第一位获此奖的作家，也是至今诺贝尔文学奖最年轻的获得者。
表作，在1995年BBC的“英国人最喜爱的诗”的民意调查中，这首立意于克制主义和淡泊主义的诗被选
为吉卜林最著名的诗。以下是诺贝尔文学奖获得者吉卜林写给他12岁的儿子的诗，短短的一首诗，语言
质朴，风格简约，平淡之中蕴含着深邃的哲理，令人久久回味。
如果
如果在众人六神无主时，你能镇定自若而不是人云亦云；
如果被众人猜忌怀疑时，你能自信如常而不去妄加辩论；
如果你有梦想，又能不迷失自我，有神思，又不至于走火入魔；
如果在成功之时能不喜形于色，而在灾难之后也勇于咀嚼苦果；
如果辛苦劳作已是功成名就，为了新目标依然冒险一搏；
如果你与村夫交谈而不变谦恭之态，和王侯散步而不露谄媚之颜；
如果他人的意志左右不了你，与任何人为伍你都能卓然独立；
如果骚扰动摇不了你的信念----
那么，你的修养就会如天地般博大，
而你，就是一个真正的男子汉，
我的儿子！
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IF
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 imposters 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 wornout 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 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 my son!
-----by Rudyard Kipling
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