 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 living, And mark them with your dead!  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 1151901Full view - About this book
 | 1899 - 652 pages
...Watch sloth and heathen folly Bring all your hope to nought. Take up the White Man's burden — • No iron 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 living And mark... | |
 | Self-culture - 1900 - 728 pages
...legitimate profit to both parties. But the idea is carried farther: "Take up the white man's burden, No iron rule of kings : But toil of serf and sweeper. The tale of common things.* Now if the poet were advising the powerful white man to proceed along this benevolent line, the proposition... | |
 | Bible - 1899 - 820 pages
...Anglo-Saxon is the mission and the opportunity. This is "The White Man's Burden," not a self-glorifying task: "No iron rule of kings, But toil of serf and sweeper, The tale of common things." An ungracious but a necessary and an immediate duty. These facts — that of race conflict, in which... | |
 | J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1899 - 610 pages
...work which the white races must do in civilizing the uncivilized : " Take up the white man's burden— No iron rule of kings. But toil of serf and sweeper— The tale of common things." He endeavours to impress the AngloSaxons with a sense of their responsibilities. They must toil, and... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan - Imperialism - 1899 - 841 pages
...what this English poet has to say about it, and what he thinks. "Take up the White Man's burden — No iron 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 living And mark... | |
 | Science - 1899 - 730 pages
...sought) Watch sloth and heathen foilsBring all your hope to nought. Take up the White Man's burdenNo iron 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. (io, make them with your living And mark... | |
 | Murat Halstead - Cuba - 1899 - 688 pages
...what this English poet has to say about it, and what he thinks: " 'Take up the White Man's burdenNo iron 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 living And mark... | |
 | Robert Buchanan, Walter Besant - Anarchism - 1900 - 76 pages
...wild— Your new-caught sullen peoples, Half devil and half child. Take up the White Man's Burden— No iron 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 living, And mark... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan - Campaign literature - 1900 - 666 pages
...see what this English poet has to say about it, and what he thinks. "Take up the White Man's burdenNo Iron 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 living And mark... | |
 | Delos Franklin Wilcox - Marriage - 1900 - 244 pages
...sovereign hand will be nerveless for the grasp of its world-problem. "Take up the White Man's burdenNo iron 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 living, And mark... | |
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