<IF>-for Michael Jackson

comebackmichael

If —Rudyard Kipling （如果--拉迪亚德·吉卜林）

IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

如果周围的人毫无理性地向你发难，你仍能镇定自若保持冷静

IF you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;

如果众人对你心存猜忌，你仍能自信依旧并对他们的猜忌表示宽容；

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

如果你肯耐心等待不急不躁，

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

或遭人诽谤却不以牙还牙，

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

或遭人憎恨却不以恶报恶；

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

既不装腔作势，亦不气盛趾高；

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;

如果你有梦想，而又不为梦主宰；

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

如果你有神思，而又不走火入魔；

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;

如果你坦然面对胜利和灾难，对虚渺的胜负荣辱胸怀坦荡；

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

如果你能忍受有这样的无赖，歪曲你说的话并以此作为引诱傻瓜的陷阱，

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

或看着倾注心血铸就的事业崩溃，仍能忍辱负脚踏实地重新攀登；

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

如果你敢把取得的一切胜利，为了更崇高的目标孤注一掷，

And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss;

面临失去，决心从头再来而绝口不提自己的损失；

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!'

如果人们早已离你而去，你仍能坚守阵地奋力前行，身上已一无所有，却心存意念高喊“坚持住”；

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

如果你跟村夫交谈而不变谦虚之态,

Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,

亦或与王侯散步而不露谄媚之颜；

if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

如果敌人和朋友都无法对你造成伤害；

If all men count with you, but none too much;

如果众人都重视你，却不过分依赖；

If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

如果你能珍惜利用每一分钟不可追回的光阴；

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

那么，你就会如天地般博大，并拥有了整个世界，

And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

而更重要的是：孩子，你成为了一名真正的男子汉！

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Michael，这已不是如果，你做到了！
你让我们看到了如此多的美好，坚持了那么久，你累了吧？
现在，放下一切负担，自由的飞翔吧，在那个属于你的梦幻国度里。
只是要记住，我们爱你！永远永远！

comebackmichael

好像点错版了，麻烦管理员帮忙移一下吧。

～薇拉～

这首诗据说写在Michael墓碑上，不知道是真是假。