ರುಡ್ಯಾರ್ಡ್ ಕಿಪ್ಲಿಂಗ್ ಅವರ "ಆದರೆ' (If)

ಈ ಕವನವನ್ನು ಮೊದಲು ಓದಿದ ನೆನಪಿಲ್ಲ.

ನೀವು unforgiving ನಿಮಿಷದಲ್ಲಿ ತುಂಬಲು ತಿನ್ನಬಹುದಾಗಿದ್ದರೆ 
- ದೂರ ರನ್ ಆಫ್ ಅರವತ್ತು ಸೆಕೆಂಡುಗಳ ಮೌಲ್ಯದ ವಿತ್ 
ಯುವರ್ಸ್ ಭೂಮಿ ಮತ್ತು ಅದು ಎಂದು ಎಲ್ಲವೂ, ಇದೆ 
ಮತ್ತು - ಇದು ಹೆಚ್ಚು - ನೀವು ಒಂದು ಮ್ಯಾನ್ ನನ್ನ ಮಗ ಎಂದು ಮಾಡುತ್ತೇವೆ!

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 imposters 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 wornout 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 breath 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! 

೧೬-೦೭-೨೦೧೧ 

ಸಹಸಂಪದಿಗ ಶ್ರೀ ಸುರೇಶ ಹೆಗ್ಡೆ ಅವರು ನೀಡಿರುವ ಅನುವಾದ ಈ ಕೊಂಡಿಯಲ್ಲಿದೆ.    

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