Greetings, dear reader. What follows has sat in my drafts for several weeks now, partly because I had forgotten about it, but partly because I felt awkward about publishing it. It isn’t my normal style, but I enjoyed writing it, so here it is at last (as if you’d been sat there waiting for it!). This is a dissection of a poem - Rudyard Kipling’s “If” - …
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