I love the poem IF. On lockdown in Spain, I came up with a version for these strange times:
IF: Covid-19 rework
If you keep your distance, though all about you
Are careless with theirs, and encroaching;
If you can be trusted when all men doubt you,
But trust no-one back, least yourself;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or hearing lies, don't deal in lies,
Or hearing blame, don’t give way to blaming,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: