If—

by Rudyard Kipling (1910) — a poem card from Justes Mots

A quiet ledger of the virtues a parent hopes a child will carry into the world.

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:
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Themes: new-baby · encouragement · graduation