If you can watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools, Or make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and never breathe a word about your loss; (...) Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son.

If you can watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools, Or make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and never breathe a word about your loss; (...) Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son.
- Rudyard Kipling

In these circumstances where the weather shows us no mercy...

Reading the words of Kipling.