It's a parody of Kipling's poem:
Crosby on Kipling: A Parody of “The White Man’s Burden”
In February 1899, British novelist and poet Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem entitled “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands.” In this poem, Kipling urged the U.S. to take up the “burden” of empire, as had Britain and other European nations. Theodore Roosevelt, soon to become vice-president and then president, copied the poem and sent it to his friend, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, commenting that it was “rather poor poetry, but good sense from the expansion point of view.” Not everyone was as favorably impressed. Poet Ernest Crosby penned a parody of Kipling’s work, “The Real White Man’s Burden,” and published it in his 1902 collection of poems Swords and Plowshares. Crosby also wrote a satirical, anti-imperialist novel, Captain Jinks, Hero, that parodied the career of General Frederick Funston, the man who had captured Philippine leader Emilio Aguinaldo in 1901.
n 1899, British writer Rudyard Kipling published "The White Man's Burden." The poem suggested that imperialist powers colonized people in order to help them. His ideas became a popular defense of imperialism. In response, Ernest Crosby criticized imperialism in "The Real White Man's Burden." He makes several references to the Spanish-American War.
Ernest Crosby (1856-1907) was a Tolstoyan pacifist, a prominent single taxer, and president of the Anti-Imperialist League of New York (1900-1904).
With apologies to Rudyard Kipling
Take up the White Man’s burden.
Send forth your sturdy kin,
And load them down with Bibles
And cannon-balls and gin.
Throw in a few diseases
To spread the tropic climes,
For there the healthy *******
Are quite behind the times.
And don’t forget the factories.
On those benighted shores
They have no cheerful iron mills,
Nor eke department stores.
They never work twelve hours a day
And live in strange content,
Altho they never have to pay
A single sou of rent.
Take up the White Man’s burden,
And teach the Philippines
What interest and taxes are
And what a mortgage means.
Give them electrocution chairs,
And prisons, too, galore,
And if they seem inclined to kick,
Then spill their heathen gore.
They need our labor question, too,
And politics and fraud—
We’ve made a pretty mess at home,
Let’s make a mess abroad.
And let us ever humbly pray
The Lord of Hosts may deign
To stir our feeble memories
Lest we forget—the Maine.
Take up the White’s Man’s burden.
To you who thus succeed
In civilizing savage hordes,
They owe a debt, indeed;
Concessions, pensions, salaries,
And privilege and right—
With outstretched hands you raised to bless
Grab everything in sight.
Take up the White Man’s burden
And if you write in verse,
Flatter your nation’s vices
And strive to make them worse.
Then learn that if with pious words
You ornament each phrase,
In a world of canting hypocrites
This kind of business pays.
Source: Ernest Crosby, “The Real White Man’s Burden,” Swords and Ploughshares (New York: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1902), 32–35.
Sorry, that's all I could find. But try link number 3; there were a lot of other links there.
2006-10-27 19:04:54
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answered by johnslat 7
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i thought best answer recieved 11 points why are you only giving 10
sorry i could not contain myself!!!
i don't think there is suck a web site to be honest with you
but i would check school websites and serch students reports! or examples
mad luv
2006-10-27 18:48:18
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answered by Anonymous
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sorry sweetie..but this is so obviously you not wanting to do your schoolwork..and the reading that this would entail....don't want your 10 points...want you to expand your brain and read things that you wouldn't normally
2006-10-27 19:02:02
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answered by OliveRuth 4
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