KIPLING'S LATEST POEMS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIII, Issue 15000, 8 April 1899, Page 3

KIPLING'S LATEST POEMS

"In the last issue of "Literature" Rudyar<i Kipling contributes a stirring poem appealing to the newly developed Imperial instincts of the United States people. TVe" quote" it for our readers' benefit: THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN. Take up the White Man's burdenSend forth the best y_e breedGo, bind your sons to exile And serve your captives' need ; To wait in heavy harness, . .-. On fluttered fold and wild— ■' '■Soiir hew-caugfit sullen peoples, ' Half devil and. half child. Take up the White Man's burdenIn patience to abide, To veil the show 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. Take up^the White Man's burden — •■ ■• .The' savage wars of peace ; Fill full the month of famine, .-And bid the. sickness ceass; - . And: when your -goal is nearest . (The. end for others sought), Watch sloth and heathen folly , Bring, all jour hope to naught! . '• 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, 1 . r The'roads- ye shall not tread, ' :• ' • Go/ mark them with your living, And- mark them with your dead! Take up the White Man's burden — ! And his 'old reward— Theblaine of those ye better;"' . - -' Tho'hate.of those ye guard ; j . ■ The"cry v of hosts ye humour ' . :Ab. slowly! towards the light: *'■ Why Brought ye us from bondage— • ■' \Olir loved Egyptian, night? . Take up the. White Man's burden— * Ye "dare not. stoop to less — , 3Nor, 'call too loud on Freedom . ' To ' cloak your weariness. By, all ye will or whisper, ' "^ By all ye leave or doi ' /The silent sullen peoples Shall weigh/ your God and you. - ■ ■• Take up. the- White, Man's burden— • Have done with childish days— . The lightly-offered laurel,.' .'. . The easy ungrudged praise; Conies now to search your manhood r Through, all the thankless years, Cold-edged, with dear-bought .wisdom, U-e judgement pf your peers. :