Rudyard Kipling: Poems
Why do you think the poet asks for the unforgiving minute to be filled with 60 seconds worth of distance run? From poem "If".
from the poem 'If' by Rudyard Kipling
from the poem 'If' by Rudyard Kipling
A minute isn't a very long time which is why every second counts; a minute is unforgiving in that way, it is like a "long distance run." After a minute is up, it is gone forever.