🔹 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! (1)
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! (2)
Take up the White Man's burden!
The savage wars of peace
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought
Watch Sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to noug! (3)
[The White Man's Burden, a poem by Rudyard Kipling, first to third stanzas, Vermont, United States of America, 1899]
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