‘If’ – by Rudyard Kipling Stanley Johnson
If you can lose your head when all about you
Are keeping theirs and not blaming you,
If you will trust no one, except Cummings,
And subjugate all who vote against you
If you can hate and not tire of hating;
Not lied about, yet the purveyor of lies;
And lose, so start again at your beginnings;
6 (?) children with a wife, girlfriend and mistress;
If you can fill the interview’s minute
With 60 seconds of feckless stupidity
Which is more my son, you must be
Alexander Boris dePfeffel Johnson.
