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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>''Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden, 1899''<br />
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This famous poem, written by Britain's imperial poet, was a response to the American take over of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.<br />
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Take up the White Man's burden--<br />
Send forth the best ye breed--<br />
Go bind your sons to exile<br />
To serve your captives' need;<br />
To wait in heavy harness,<br />
On fluttered folk and wild--<br />
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,<br />
Half-devil and half-child.<br />
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Take up the White Man's burden--<br />
In patience to abide,<br />
To veil the threat of terror<br />
And check the show of pride;<br />
By open speech and simple,<br />
An hundred times made plain<br />
To seek another's profit,<br />
And work another's gain.<br />
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Take up the White Man's burden--<br />
The savage wars of peace--<br />
Fill full the mouth of Famine<br />
And bid the sickness cease;<br />
And when your goal is nearest<br />
The end for others sought,<br />
Watch sloth and heathen Folly<br />
Bring all your hopes to nought.<br />
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Take up the White Man's burden--<br />
No tawdry rule of kings,<br />
But toil of serf and sweeper--<br />
The tale of common things.<br />
The ports ye shall not enter,<br />
The roads ye shall not tread,<br />
Go mark them with your living,<br />
And mark them with your dead.<br />
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Take up the White Man's burden--<br />
And reap his old reward:<br />
The blame of those ye better,<br />
The hate of those ye guard--<br />
The cry of hosts ye humour<br />
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--<br />
"Why brought he us from bondage,<br />
Our loved Egyptian night?"<br />
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Take up the White Man's burden--<br />
Ye dare not stoop to less--<br />
Nor call too loud on Freedom<br />
To cloke your weariness;<br />
By all ye cry or whisper,<br />
By all ye leave or do,<br />
The silent, sullen peoples<br />
Shall weigh your gods and you.<br />
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Take up the White Man's burden--<br />
Have done with childish days--<br />
The lightly proferred laurel,<br />
The easy, ungrudged praise.<br />
Comes now, to search your manhood<br />
Through all the thankless years<br />
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,<br />
The judgment of your peers!<br />
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This text is part of the Internet Modern History Sourcebook. The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts for introductory level classes in modern European and World history.</div>MainPage>Admin