| Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 766 pages
...and, taking it down, would twang from its strings a lay of duty. " Take up," he would sing— Take up the White Man's burden, Send forth the best ye...new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child. music which, perhaps, had more of the harmonium than the harp in it, but was none the less, suited... | |
| New England - 1899 - 870 pages
...experience in the same line. The poem is so familiar that only a single verse need be reproduced: "Take up the White Man's burden; Send forth the best ye...breed; — Go, bind your sons to exile To serve your captive's need; To wait in heavy harness On fluttered folk and wild— Your new-caught, sullen peoples,... | |
| Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts - 1893 - 1194 pages
...and wbisper, By all ye leave or do, The silent, sullen peoples Shall weigh your God and you. " Take up the white man's burden, Send forth the best ye...heavy harness On fluttered folk and wild — Your new caught sullen peoples, Half devil and half child." How comes it that the soldiers of free, peace-loving... | |
| Self-culture - 1900 - 728 pages
...we look for the message of the poem its apparent meaning is all in the first four lines : • Take up the white man's burden Send forth the best ye breed...your sons to exile, To serve your captives' need.* The entire poem is an elaboration of this one idea. The white nations are to go out with the force... | |
| Murat Halstead - Cuba - 1899 - 688 pages
...world, and has been all over it, and knows whereof he speaks: " 'Take up the White Man's burdenSend forth the best ye breed — Go, bind your sons to...folk and wild — Your new-caught sullen peoples, Half devil and half child.' "I will pause here. I intend to read more, but I wish to call attention... | |
| David James Burrell - Bible - 1899 - 364 pages
...adjuration sounds like an echo of the Great Commission of our Lord : " Take up the White Man's burdenSend forth the best ye breed — Go, bind your sons to...folk and wild — Your new-caught sullen peoples, Half devil and half child. Take up the White Man's burden— Ye dare not stoop to less — Nor call... | |
| Herbert O. Hicks, Fred A. Simmons - Adams (Mass.) - 1899 - 154 pages
...universal memory of mankind, Inscribed shall be the record, bold and sure, Of deeds illustrious. Take up the white man's burden, Send forth the best ye...captives' need; To wait, in heavy harness, On fluttered folks and wild — Your new caught sullen peoples, Half devil and half child. — Kipling. This book... | |
| American literature - 1899 - 556 pages
...is the first stanza of the poem, which is printed in the February number of Mcdlure'a Magazine: Take up the White Man's burden. Send forth the best ye...to exile, To serve your captives' need; To wait, in heiivy harness, On fluttered folk and wild, Your new-caught, sullen peoples. Half devil and half child.... | |
| Science - 1899 - 730 pages
...Frederic R. Honey. THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN. Take up the White Man's burdenSend forth the best ye breedCo, bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need...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... | |
| J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1899 - 610 pages
...of Great Britain andof the United States that they have a duty to perform. He cries to them : " Take up the white man's burden— Send forth the best ye breed— Go, bind your sons in exile To serve your captives' need." He sees the new races of Africa, Asia and Central America being... | |
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