paturi@harvard.UUCP (Ramamohan Paturi) (01/06/86)
From paturi@harvard.HARVARD.EDU.ARPA (Ramamohan Paturi) A famous poet expressing a condescending sense of obligation spurred by the colonizers' pride and success: From Rudyard Kipling's Verse: The White Man's Burden 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-- The savage wars of peace-- Fill full the mouth of Famine And bid the sickness cease; And when your goal is nearest The end for others sought, Watch Sloth and heathen Folly Bring all your people to nought. 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! 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!) toward the light:-- "Why brought ye us from bondage, Our loved Egyptian night?" Take up the White Man's burden-- Ye dare not stoop to less-- Nor call too loud on Freedom To cloak your weariness; By all ye cry or whisper, By all ye leave or do, The silent , sullen peoples Shall weigh your Gods and you. 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 judgment of your peers!
jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) (01/08/86)
u / u / u / u > And when your goal is nearest u / u / u / > The end for others sought, u / u / u / u > Watch Sloth and heathen Folly u / u / u?? u / > Bring all your people to nought. ^^^^^^ Yet another example of the endless desire of the Just and Equitable to rewrite the poems and destroy the meter ... Why not change the poem to "The White Person's Burden"? We need some internal feminine rhyme here :-), and if we aren't going to leave the poem as the poet wrote it, we might as well do a good job of changing it... The blame of those ye better, The hate of those ye guard ... -- UUCP: Ofc: jer@peora.UUCP Home: jer@jerpc.CCC.UUCP CCC DNS: peora, pesnta US Mail: MS 795; CONCURRENT Computer Corp. SDC; (A Perkin-Elmer Company) 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642 "Oh, is he your friend? Ask him his name!"