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If was first published in the br other square toeschapter of Rewards and fairies, Kipling's 1910 collection of short stories and poems. Like William Ernest henley'sinvictus, it is a memorable evocation of Victorian stoicism and thestiff upper lip that popular culture has made into a traditional British virtue. Its status is confirmed both by the number of parodies it has inspired, and by the widespread popularity it still draws amongst Britons. It is often voted Britain's favorite poem. The poem's line,if you can meet with triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposters just the same is written on the wall of the centres Court players' entrance at the British tennis Tournament, Wimbledon. Illustrated by Alma-Tadema's painting:education of children Clovis