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.