<Tr> <Th> First published in </Th> <Td> Rewards and Fairies </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Publisher </Th> <Td> Doubleday, Page & Company </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Publication date </Th> <Td> 1910 (108 years ago) (1910) </Td> </Tr> <P> "If --" is a poem by English Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling, written circa 1895 as a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson . It is a literary example of Victorian - era stoicism . The poem, first published in Rewards and Fairies (1910), is written in the form of paternal advice to the poet's son, John . </P>

Who said if you can keep your head when all about you