Rudyard Kipling: “The White Man's Burden” Date: 1899
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Rudyard Kipling: “The White Man'sBurden”

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Take up the White Man's burden— Send forth the best ye breed— Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives’ need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild— Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child. Take up the White Man's burden— In patience to abide, To veil the threat of terror And check the show of pride; By open speech and simple, An hundred times made plain To seek another's profit, And work another’s gain.

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