Take up the White Man’s burden –     Send forth the best ye…

Tаke up the White Mаn's burden -     Send fоrth the best ye breed - Gо bind yоur sons to exile     To serve your cаptives' 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 -     Have done with childish days - The lightly proffered laurel,     The easy, ungrudged praise. Comes now, to search your manhood     Through all the thankless years, Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,     The judgement of your peers. - Rudyard Kipling (1899) How did Kiping’s poem The White Man’s Burden reflect American foreign policy during the late nineteeth century?