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FINALLY
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To drive your legs long after they are done
And so row on when there is nothing in you
Except the will that says 'Now on';
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With forty strokes, and let the boat full run,
Yours is the earth and everything that's in it.
And what's more you'll be an oar, my son.
Dermod St John Gogarty,
with apologies to Rudyard Kipling, 1931