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It's an anymous poem, I know for sure. It's basically like Rudyard Kipling's "If", but for girls. We used to have a copy of it, but I kind of... Lost it. Just about all I remember of it is: "If you can dress to make yourself attractive, but not make puffs and curls your chief delight; If you can swim and row, be strong and active, but of the gentler graces lose not sight..."
Any idea where I can find this?

2006-10-16 04:22:57 · 2 answers · asked by isayssoccer 4 in Arts & Humanities Books & Authors

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AN "IF" FOR GIRLS

Elizabeth Lincoln Otis
(with apologies to Mr. Rudyard Kipling)

If you can dress to make yourself attractive,
Yet not make puffs and curls your chief delight;
If you can swim and row, be strong and active,
But of the gentler graces lose not sight;
If you can dance without a craze for dancing,
Play without giving play too strong a hold,
Enjoy the love of friends without romancing,
Care for the weak, the friendless and the old;

If you can master French and Greek and Latin,
And not acquire as well, a priggish mien;
If you can feel the touch of silk and satin
Without despising calico and jean;
If you can ply a saw and use a hammer,
Can do a man's work when the need occurs,
Can sing, when asked, without excuse or stammer,
Can rise above unfriendly snubs and slurs;

If you can make good bread as well as fudges,
Can sew with skill, and have an eye for dust;
If you can be a friend and hold no grudges,
A girl whom all will love because they must;

If sometime you should meet and love another
And make a home with faith and peace enshrined
And you its soul -- a loyal wife and mother --
You'll work out pretty nearly to my mind
The plan that's been developed through the ages,
And win the best that life can have in store.
You'll be, my girl, a model for the sages --
A woman whom the world will bow before.

the website is at:

http://www.tenderbytes.net/rhymeworld/marymenu/favorite.htm#if4girls

There are also 2 others that I found, although I think htis one is the best. If you Google "if for girls" you should find all three.

2006-10-16 05:23:48 · answer #1 · answered by Longshiren 6 · 0 0

http://www.wowzone.com/if_for_girls.htm

I thought that was it, but it doesn't match your lines... oh well...

2006-10-16 11:28:20 · answer #2 · answered by averyanne77 4 · 0 0

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