Monday, October 4, 2010

PAPA DUKE'S FAVORITE POEM



I discovered the poem If by Rudyard Kipling because my father, Papa Duke, hung a framed parchment of it in our home.

After my father died, I found a version of If in his studio. He had written it out by hand, probably at a young age, as if he intended to commit it to memory.

This is a poem worth remembering.