Rudyard Kipling - a poem. Enjoy!

[Muazzam Kazi]

To Risk

Rudyard Kipling

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool,
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return, To live is to risk dying,
To hope is to risk despair, To try is to risk failure.

But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk
nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.



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[zainul abedin]

Salam and Respect, Dr. Kazi bhai,

Please look at this Racist/Jingoist, then [I will] quote (actually, I will not---sorry to say)! Rudyard Kipling is a "great poet" but....just a little thing!

You know as an Adu bhai, just about two week's ago, I mentioned this American Jingoism and consequences for not following that Jingoism/ Chauvinism [even presidents got killed] before my Dissertation Committee (as they asked me about Obama's "compromising" policy). 

Zainul Abedin

Rudyard Kipling

The White Man's Burden

1899

THE UNITED STATES AND THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

Take up the White man's burden --
  Send forth the best ye breed --
Go bind your sons to exile
  To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness
  On fluttered folk and wild --
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
  Half devil and half child.

Take up the White Man's burden --
  In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
  And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
  An hundred times mad plain.
To seek another's profit,
  And work another's gain.

Take up the White Man's burden --
  The savage wars of peace --
Fill full the mouth of Famine
  And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
  The end for others sought,
Watch Sloth and heathen Folly
  Bring all your hope to nought.

Take up the White Man's burden --
  No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper --
  The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
  The roads ye shall not tread,
Go make them with your living,
  And mark them with your dead!

Take up the White man's burden --
  And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
  The hate of those ye guard --
The cry of hosts ye humour
  (Ah, slowly!) toward the light: --
"Why brought ye us from bondage,
  "Our loved Egyptian night?"

Take up the White Man's burden --
  Ye dare not stoop to less --
Nor call too loud on freedom
  To cloak your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
  By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
  Shall weigh your Gods and you.

Take up the White Man's burden --
  Have done with childish days --
The lightly proffered laurel,
  The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
  Through all the thankless years,
Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,
  The judgment of your peers!

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[Muazzam Kazi]

Thank you dear Dr. Zainul bhai to share with us. 

I am not a risk taker, but still I liked following lines. 

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.

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True. To achieve something, one needs to take risk at times. We also know the saying: No risk, no gain.

 

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[zainul abedin]

OK, Salam and respect, Kazi bhai,

No problem, I respect your view. I used to have the same view when I did not know the facts of racism, imperialism, white supremacy, slavery, lynching etc. 

Problem is with our education, with our politicians/scholars who not only lecture their students, they also earn higher degrees, write "scholarly"volumes of books. 

The racists, supremacists apparently talk many good things that generally all of us might like. It is like Jefferson's "All men are created equal," by which he did not mean "all men" who include white women even, lest the blacks. Their "democracy" is not meant for all others around the world, even in some cases in the U.S. 

Yes, let us accept "But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing," 

now, to undo racism, and the resurgence of "whitelash."

Rudyard Kipling has more racist/supremacists poems/writings.

Best regards,

Zainul Abedin

[Muazzam Kazi]

Rudyard Kipling another poem If, I am sure Dr. Zainul

bhai will like it. 

Rudyard Kipling, 1865 - 1936

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 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 impostors 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 breathe 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!

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[zainul abedin]

Assalamu Alaikum, dear Kazi bhai,

I avoid one title of you so that you do not repeat for me (I do not feel good--- I am just Zainul Abedin (bhai) that I told/tell all my people, including professors/colleagues).

The poem "If" was written also involving Imperialist War(s) advising his "son" Leander Starr Jameson, leader of the failed Jameson Raid (December 1895 – January 1896) against the Transvaal Republic to overthrow the Boer Government of Paul Kruger some 15 years prior to its publication. The failure of that mercenary coup d’état aggravated the political tensions between Great Britain and the Boers which led to the Second Boer War (1899–1902). 

[Boers were  the Dutch who along with Portuguese became known as Pirates in our land, while occupier British became our "friend" for about 200 years! ... Chheley Ghumalo Para Juralo Borgi (Dutch/Portuguese) Elo Deshey.......Khajna Debo Kishey?" That Khajna and other exploitation created two Great Famines in our lands eradicating one-third of population two times in British India]

These are imperialist/racist issues thru' Apartheid. British were "intelligent" (virtually, crook). They knew how to inspire their invaders, how to ignore their temporary loss, how to recruit collaborators (Mir  Zafars). [Yes, RK's only son John Kipling also served in the Imperialist and crook British Army. He was killed in September 1915 at the Battle of Loos while serving with the British Army during the First World War, nearly six weeks after his eighteenth birthday. RK also has a poem for him.]

I accept his "advise" (though it was not for us!) from the viewpoint of Kazi Nazrul Islam's "Shikol Pora Chhol Moder Ei Shikol Pora Chhol// Ei Shikol Porei Toder Korborey Bikol...."

Yes, the wave of (territorial) imperialism was turned away, but that the apparent "goodness" of their "superiority" was mixed in our blood in such a way that many people still support that in different forms---globalized culture, politics, science, modernity, economic development etc.

I apologize, I do not argue these mere to counter your wisdom.

Most probably, I end up with this posting. May Allah Bless us all!

Best regards,

Zainul Abedin

If— "If—" is a poem by British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling, written in 1895[1] and first published in R...

"If—" is a poem by British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling, written in 1895^[1] and first published in Rewards and Fairies, 1910. It is a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson. The poem is written in the form of paternal advice to the poet's son, John.^[2] As poetry, "If—" is a literary example of Victorian-era stoicism.

If— "If—" is a poem by British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling, written in 1895[1] and first published in R...

[Muazzam Kazi]

Thank you Zainul bhai to update lot of history.

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[zainul abedin]

Salam and welcome, dear Kazi bhai.

Zainul Abedin