If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterĪnd treat those two impostors just the same: If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim, If you can dream - and not make dreams your master If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Īnd yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,īut make allowance for their doubting too: If you can keep your head when all about you The message of this poem makes it an especially fitting graduation present for a young man. Ink Monkey Press ’ ® print, designed by Sherrie Lovler, brings the poem to new heights with rich colors and clear, easy-to-read hand-lettering. It was created as an educational model, offering instruction on the virtues and characteristics of a model public figure. IF has become an inspirational anthem whose popularity endures to this day. IF, Rudyard Kipling ’s most beloved poem, was written in 1909, and was first published in 1910 in his collection of children's stories, Rewards and Fairies.
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