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Rudyard Kipling's "If"

Fill in the blanks in Rudyard Kipling's famous poem, "If"
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Poem
Missing Word
If you can keep your ____ when all about you
head
    Are losing theirs and _______ it on you,   
blaming
If you can trust ________ when all men doubt you,
yourself
    But make allowance for their ________ too;   
doubting
If you can ____ and not be tired by _______,
wait, waiting
    Or being ____ about, don’t deal in ____,
lied, lies
Or being _____, don’t give way to ______,
hated, hating
    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too ____:
wise
If you can _____—and not make ______ your master;   
dream, dreams
    If you can think—and not make ________ your aim;   
thoughts
If you can meet with _______ and Disaster
Triumph
    And treat those two _________ just the same;   
imposters
If you can bear to hear the _____ you’ve spoken
truth
    Twisted by ______ to make a trap for fools,
knaves
Or watch the things you gave your life to, ______,
broken
    And _____ and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
stoop
If you can make one heap of all your ________
winnings
    And risk it on one ____ of pitch-and-toss,
turn
And lose, and start again at your __________
beginnings
    And never breathe a ____ about your loss;
word
If you can force your heart and _____ and sinew
nerve
    To _____ your turn long after they are gone,   
serve
And so hold on when there is _______ in you
nothing
    Except the ____ which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
Will
If you can talk with ______ and keep your virtue,   
crowds
    Or walk with _____—nor lose the common touch,
Kings
If neither foes nor ______ friends can hurt you,
loving
    If all men _____ with you, but none too much;
count
If you can fill the ___________ minute
unforgiving
    With sixty seconds’ worth of ________ run,   
distance
Yours is the _____ and everything that’s in it,   
Earth
    And—which is more—you’ll be a ___, my son!
Man
1 Comments
+1
Level 36
Nov 9, 2018
Fantastic poem! - Best Ever composed.