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Derek Mahon: Glengormley   ‘Wonders are many and none is more wonderful than man’ Who has tamed the terrier, trimmed the hedge And grasped the principle of the watering can. Clothes pegs litter the window ledge And the long ships lie in clover. Washing lines Shake out…

Az előző vershez némi érdekesség:1995-ben a BBC szavazásán ez a vers lett az Egyesült Királyság kedvenc verse.Wiki oldal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If%E2%80%94Kipling összes: http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/kipling_ind.htmlKorabeli kritika a New York Timesban (1898!):…

Rudyard Kiplin: If  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…