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The poem If, written by English Nobel laureate poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling for his son circa 1895, is widely perceived as fatherly advice for John who would sooner contemplate a harsh world.

The prose itself, experts say, is likely inspired by the plight of Kipling’s friend Leander Starr Jameson who failed to overthrow the Boer government in then-Dutch ruled South Africa.