If - Poetry Collection
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While best known for The Jungle Book, English Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling, was known also for his poetry. "If" was written in 1895 as a tribute to Leader Starr Jameson and was first published in "Rewards and Fairies." It is written in the form of advice to the poet's son.
"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream–and not make dreams your master;
If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings–nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And–which is more–you'll be a Man, my son!"
Available in three sizes:
- 17” x 25”
- 2’ x 3’
- 3’ x 4’
Available in two frame styles:
- Grey Wood Frame
- Gallery Wrap (17” x 25” and 2’ x 3’ only)
Available in three colors:
- Cream
- White
- Charcoal
If - Poetry Collection
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