take up the white mans burden send forth the best ye breed go send 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 mans 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 anothers profit and work anothers gain take up the white mans burden > and reap his old reward: > the blame of those ye better > the hate of those ye guard > the cry of hosts ye humour (ah slowly) to the light: "why brought ye us from bondage, our loved egyptian night? take up the white mans 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 judgment of your peers!
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