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Notes a soldier, set off for France to find John. But nothing ever came of the search, and John’s body
was never recovered. A distraught and drained Kipling returned to England to once again
mourn the loss of another child.

Final Years

While the last two decades continued to see Kipling write, he never again returned to the
bright, cheery children’s tales he had once so delighted in crafting. Health issues eventually
caught up to both Kipling and Carrie, the result of age, but also of grief.
Over his last few years, Kipling suffered from a painful ulcer, which eventually took his life
on January 18, 1936. Kipling’s ashes were buried in Westminster Abbey in Poets’ Corner next
to the graves of Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens.

9.2 “If”

“If”
If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build’em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

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