8 Father’s Day Poems That Say Everything You Wish You Could

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

English Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling wrote these final stanzas of his poem “If—” in 1895. It’s written as a letter to a son and gives advice on how to manage life. And, fun fact, the stanza “If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster / and treat those two impostors just the same” are written on the wall of the players’ entrance to the Centre Court where Wimbledon is held.

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