Kipling's "The White Man's Burden"

Take up the White Man's burden - 

    Send forth the best ye breed - 

Go bind your sons to exile

    To serve your captives' need;

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To wait in heavy harness

    On fluttered folk and wild -

Your new-caught sullen peoples,

    Half devil and half child. 

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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,

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    An hundred times made plain,

To seek another's profit,

    And work another's gain. 

Take up the White Man's burden -

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    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,

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Watch Sloth and heathen Folly

    Bring all your hopes to nought.