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Save 30% on our beautiful calligraphy print of Rudyard Kipling‘s most popular poem – the classic ‘If’.

This is one of our favourite classic poems on Etsy, and is hand finished with 22 carat gold leaf.

We love this as a gift for a student or graduate, or a father or grandfather. It’s inspirational, motivational – and a lovely way to show how proud you are of someone you love!

It’s also a fabulous retirement gift – and truly unique as a Christmas gift for someone special.

The calligraphy is scanned and reproduced from a handwritten original piece. Paper is lightly textured, quality Italian stock. The print measures 45cm x 32cm – it’s perfect for trimming to an A3 or 12 x 16″ frame.

To buy your Rudyard Kipling calligraphy print and save 30% visit my Etsy shop at https://www.etsy.com/shop/byMoonandTide

This offer is strictly limited and ends on 30th November 2018

The full wording for Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If’ is –

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!’

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!

Source – Wikisource