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 —    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.       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 nought.       Take up the White Man's burden —    No tawdry rule of kings,   But toil of serf and sweeper —   The tale of common things.   The ports ye shall not enter,   The roads ye shall not tread,   Go make them with your livin...