END-OF-THE-WEEK-RUMINATIONS: "Composed"

       Doing last Monday's post reminded me of my Dad's favorite poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling, which begins:


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 meet this and the good further prescriptions Kipling makes, then you too can "have the world and everything that's in it," and (skirting by the actual last line that challenged me)

And - which is more - you'll be composed, my son!


Find the poem here.