<P> The Indian writer Khushwant Singh considered the poem "the essence of the message of The Gita in English ." </P> <P> In 1914 the New Zealand School Journal published the poem without asking permission following the outbreak of World War I . The Education Department wrote to the publishers and offered to pay a "reasonable fee". Kipling, who routinely turned down requests to publish "If --", asked for £ 50 to settle the matter . The Solicitor - General said that the Crown was not bound by the New Zealand Copyright Act of 1913, and could reprint the whole of Kipling's works if it chose . </P> <P> There is a classical translation in French by André Maurois, who was an interpreter with the British Army during the First World War . It was published in "Les silences du colonel Bramble" (1921), chap . XIV (Collection Poche, pp. 93s .). </P> <P> On 21 September 1938 Czech journal Přítomnost published the poem in the place of editorial (as a reaction on the situation before the Munich dictate) </P>

And so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them hold on meaning