Take up the White Man’s burden – Send forth the best ye…
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 – Have done with childish days – The lightly proffered laurel, The easy, ungrudged praise. Comes now, to search your manhood Through all the thankless years, Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom, The judgement of your peers. – Rudyard Kipling (1899) How did Kiping’s poem The White Man’s Burden reflect American foreign policy during the late nineteeth century?
Read Details