The Burden of Profit

By C. E. D. Phelps

City and State 15 (Dec. 17, 1903).

Take up "the white man's burden"; The white man is the strong And glorious Anglo-Saxon Who feels not others' wrong. All men are black whose customs He does not understand. Take up the white man's burden-- The gold-fields of the Rand!   Take up "the white man's burden," The dwellings of the brown Perchance will yield a profit When we have swept them down By treason or by torture, Mean stealth or open war. Take up the white man's burden-- Manila and Samar!   Take up "the white man's burden"; When he is wanting land, The folk who would refuse him Shall feel his heavy hand; The folk who bargain with him Are riding for a fall. Take up the white man's burden-- The Panama Canal! December 12, 1903.