{"id":1184,"date":"2017-07-11T03:02:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T03:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ushistory2os\/chapter\/primary-source-rudyard-kipling-the-white-mans-burden-1899\/"},"modified":"2022-04-08T16:44:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T16:44:25","slug":"primary-source-rudyard-kipling-the-white-mans-burden-1899","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory2\/chapter\/primary-source-rudyard-kipling-the-white-mans-burden-1899\/","title":{"raw":"Primary Source: Rudyard Kipling, \u201cThe White Man\u2019s Burden\u201d (1899)","rendered":"Primary Source: Rudyard Kipling, \u201cThe White Man\u2019s Burden\u201d (1899)"},"content":{"raw":"As the United States waged war against Filipino insurgents, the British writer and poet Rudyard Kipling urged the Americans to take up \u201cthe white man\u2019s burden.\u201d<\/em>\r\n\r\nTake up the White Man\u2019s burden\u2014\r\nSend forth the best ye breed\u2014\r\nGo send your sons to exile\r\nTo serve your captives\u2019 need\r\nTo wait in heavy harness\r\nOn fluttered folk and wild\u2014\r\nYour new-caught, sullen peoples,\r\nHalf devil and half child\r\nTake up the White Man\u2019s burden\r\nIn patience to abide\r\nTo veil the threat of terror\r\nAnd check the show of pride;\r\nBy open speech and simple\r\nAn hundred times made plain\r\nTo seek another\u2019s profit\r\nAnd work another\u2019s gain\r\nTake up the White Man\u2019s burden\u2014\r\nAnd reap his old reward:\r\nThe blame of those ye better\r\nThe hate of those ye guard\u2014\r\nThe cry of hosts ye humour\r\n(Ah slowly) to the light:\r\n\u201cWhy brought ye us from bondage,\r\n\u201cOur loved Egyptian night?\u201d\r\nTake up the White Man\u2019s burden-\r\nHave done with childish days-\r\nThe lightly proffered laurel,\r\nThe easy, ungrudged praise.\r\nComes now, to search your manhood\r\nThrough all the thankless years,\r\nCold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,\r\nThe judgment of your peers!\r\n\r\nSource: Rudyard Kipling, \u201cThe White Man\u2019s Burden,\u201d Literature <\/em>(February 4, 1899), 115.\r\n\r\nVia Google Books<\/a>.","rendered":"

As the United States waged war against Filipino insurgents, the British writer and poet Rudyard Kipling urged the Americans to take up \u201cthe white man\u2019s burden.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Take up the White Man\u2019s burden\u2014
\nSend forth the best ye breed\u2014
\nGo send your sons to exile
\nTo serve your captives\u2019 need
\nTo wait in heavy harness
\nOn fluttered folk and wild\u2014
\nYour new-caught, sullen peoples,
\nHalf devil and half child
\nTake up the White Man\u2019s burden
\nIn patience to abide
\nTo veil the threat of terror
\nAnd check the show of pride;
\nBy open speech and simple
\nAn hundred times made plain
\nTo seek another\u2019s profit
\nAnd work another\u2019s gain
\nTake up the White Man\u2019s burden\u2014
\nAnd reap his old reward:
\nThe blame of those ye better
\nThe hate of those ye guard\u2014
\nThe cry of hosts ye humour
\n(Ah slowly) to the light:
\n\u201cWhy brought ye us from bondage,
\n\u201cOur loved Egyptian night?\u201d
\nTake up the White Man\u2019s burden-
\nHave done with childish days-
\nThe lightly proffered laurel,
\nThe easy, ungrudged praise.
\nComes now, to search your manhood
\nThrough all the thankless years,
\nCold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,
\nThe judgment of your peers!<\/p>\n

Source: Rudyard Kipling, \u201cThe White Man\u2019s Burden,\u201d Literature <\/em>(February 4, 1899), 115.<\/p>\n

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