If
by Rudyard Kipling
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 impostors 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 worn-out 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 breathe 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
만일 . . .
만일 네가 모든 걸 잃었고 모두가 너를 비난할 때
너 자신이 머리를 똑바로 쳐 들 수 있다면,
만일 모든 사람이 너를 의심할 때
너 자신은 스스로를 신뢰할 수 있다면,
만일 네가 기다릴 수 있고
또한 기다림에 지치지 않을 수 있다면,
거짓이 들리더라도 거짓과 타협하지 않으며
미움을 받더라도 그 미움에 지지 않을 수 있다면,
그러면서도 너무 선한 체하지 않고
너무 지혜로운 말들을 늘어놓지 않을 수 있다면,
만일 네가 꿈을 갖더라도
그 꿈의 노예가 되지 않을 수 있다면,
또한 네가 어떤 생각을 갖더라도
그 생각이 유일한 목표가 되지 않게 할 수 있다면,
그리고 만일 인생의 길에서 성공과 실패를 만나더라도
그 두 가지를 똑같은 것으로 받아들일 수 있다면,
네가 말한 진실이 왜곡되어 바보들이 너를 욕하더라도
너 자신은 그것을 참고 들을 수 있다면,
그리고 만일 너의 전생애를 바친 일이 무너지더라도
몸을 굽히고서 그걸 다시 일으켜 세울 수 있다면,
한번쯤은 네가 쌓아 올린 모든 걸 걸고
내기를 할 수 있다면,
그래서 다 잃더라도 처음부터 다시 시작할 수 있다면,
그러면서도 네가 잃은 것에 대해 침묵할 수 있고
다 잃은 뒤에도 변함없이
네 가슴과 어깨와 머리가 널 위해 일할 수 있다면,
설령 너에게 아무것도 남아 있지 않는다 해도
강한 의지로 그것들을 움직일 수 있다면,
만일 군중과 이야기하면서도 너 자신의 덕을 지킬 수 있고
왕과 함께 걸으면서도 상식을 잃지 않을 수 있다면,
적이든 친구든 너를 해치지 않게 할 수 있다면,
모두가 너에게 도움을 청하되
그들로 하여금
너에게 너무 의존하지 않게 만들 수 있다면,
그리고 만일 네가 도저히 용서할 수 없는 1분간을
거리를 두고 바라보는 60초로 대신 할 수 있다면,
그렇다면 세상은 너의 것이며
너는 비로소
한 사람의 어른이 되는 것이다. 내 아들아
- 루디야드 키플링, 류시화 번역 '만일' 중에서 -
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Rudyard Kipling
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was a British author and poet. Born in Bombay, in British India, he is best known for his works of fiction The Jungle Book (1894) (a collection of stories which includes Rikki-Tikki-Tavi), Kim (1901) (a tale of adventure), many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888); and his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), and If— (1910). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works speak to a versatile and luminous narrative gift.
Kipling was one of the most popular writers in English, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The author Henry James said of him: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English language writer to receive the prize, and to date he remains its youngest recipient. Among other honours, he was sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, all of which he declined.
Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed according to the political and social climate of the age and the resulting contrasting views about him continued for much of the 20th century. A young George Orwell called him a "prophet of British imperialism". According to critic Douglas Kerr: "He is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognised as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with".