It’s The Little Things That Bug Me

Rudyard Kiplings poem IF  is a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson, a Victorian war hero who led the failed Jameson Raid against the Transvaal Republic.  I know this history because in the 1960s I taught at Jameson High School in Zimbabwe. The school was named in the mans honor as were two of the four student dormitories, Starr and Leander.  All this is in my upcoming memoir, of course, so Ill get back to Kiplings poem. It begins: If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs...