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Ifâ  is a poem by British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling, written in 1895 and first published in Rewards and Fairies, 1910. It is a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson. The poem is written in the form of paternal advice to the poet's son, John. As poetry, Ifâ is a literary example of Victorian-era stoicism. John was killed at the Battle of Loos in 1915.
Oh, oh, all over this land. So go the first two stanzas of Lee Hays and Pete Seeger's folk tune, If I had a hammer, one of the most famous tunes and lyrics in the history of American song. The grammar of the lyrics uses what is called the conditional. The writer expresses an action or an idea (hammering out danger and warning and love) that is dependent on a condition, on something that is only imagined (having a hammer or a bell â or, in the next stanza, a song). In this situation, the lyricist imagines what he would do if he had a hammer â now, in the present.