If you can hit the trail in zero weather And laugh at frozen hand, or foot or face;
If you can eat your dogs, and still keep moving And beat the rest, and hold the stampede's pace;
If you can stake and dig alone, unaided And hold your gr...
If I should die this night, (as well might be, So pain has on my weakness worked its will), And they should come at morn and look on me Lying more white than I am wont, and still In the strong silence of unchanging sleep, And feel upon my brow the...
(‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies)
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,