• PPB: If -- / Rudyard Kipling

    From George J. Dance@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 20 06:01:52 2021
    Penny's Poetry blog's poem for Father's Day:
    If —, by Rudyard Kipling:

    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!’
    [...]

    https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2021/06/if-rudyard-kipling.html

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  • From Terry Stomp@21:1/5 to George J. Dance on Mon Jun 21 17:08:24 2021
    On Sunday, June 20, 2021 at 9:01:54 AM UTC-4, George J. Dance wrote:

    Penny's Poetry blog's poem for Father's Day:
    If —, by Rudyard Kipling:

    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!’
    [...]

    https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2021/06/if-rudyard-kipling.html

    A classic I could read a hundred more times...

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  • From George J. Dance@21:1/5 to Terry Stomp on Wed Jun 23 12:14:31 2021
    On Monday, June 21, 2021 at 8:08:25 PM UTC-4, Terry Stomp wrote:
    On Sunday, June 20, 2021 at 9:01:54 AM UTC-4, George J. Dance wrote:

    Penny's Poetry blog's poem for Father's Day:
    If —, by Rudyard Kipling:

    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!’
    [...]

    https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2021/06/if-rudyard-kipling.html
    A classic I could read a hundred more times...

    I've actually been singing it, to the main theme of this tune (which comes in just after the 15-second mark), which Kipling's meter fits so perfectly:

    Assembled Multitude, Overture from Tommy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v84dWza5TsQ

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