Rudyard Kipling was a British poet born in Bombay, India on 30 December 30 1865 but educated in England. He worked as a journalist in India, and then traveled widely as an adult. The poem "If—" was first published in Rewards and Fairies, a 1910 collection of Kipling's stories and poems. According to Kipling's 1937 autobiography, Something of Myself, it was written in honor of Leander Starr Jameson.
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