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1899:Kipling's Plea : IN OUR PAGES:100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO

NEW YORK — An extraordinary sensation has been created by Mr. Rudyard Kipling's new poem, "The White Man's Burden," just published in a New York magazine. It is regarded as the strongest argument yet published in favor of expansion. It reads as follows: 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/ Half devil and half child.

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