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
In this line the speaker indicates colonialists' spoken altruistic motives serve to obscure more violent intentions, and the anxiety that other cultures are a moral threat to western culture.
The White Mans Burden