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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.