Will give 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 take up the white man's burden— and reap his old reward: the blame of those ye better the hate of those ye guard— the cry of hosts ye humour (ah slowly) to the light: "why brought ye us from bondage, "our loved egyptian night? " take up the white man's burden- have done with childish days- the lightly proffered laurel, the easy, ungrudged praise. comes now, to search your manhood through all the years, cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom, the judgment of your peers! –rudyard kipling "the white man's burden" 1899 according to kipling, what is the white man’s burden? a) white men have the duty to serve others around the world. b) white men must send their best sons to work as household servants. c) white men must wait until they have worked hard enough to improve other regions. d) white men are devilish and childish, and these qualities harm society.