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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 hopes 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 judgement of your peers. -The White Man’s Burden by Kipling (1899)

“…hadst pleasure in their lauds, O Indra golden-haired." - [Rig Veda 10] " [Agni] With flame for hair: to him we seek." - [Rig Veda 3] " Men call on thee whose hair is flame [Agni], to be the bearer of their gifts." - [Rig Veda 1] " O Surya with the golden-haired , ascend for us day after day." - [Rig Veda 10] "To him , Rudra the strong , great , fair-complexioned I utter forth a mighty hymn of praises". - [Rig Veda 2] "To her ...to this golden-locked Nirriti (goddess of misfortune), I have rendered obeisance." - [Adharva Veda] "Indra , the Iron One with yellow beard and yellow hair." - [Rig Veda 10] "with tawny hair, Savitr hath raised before" - [Yajur Veda 4] "Savitar, golden-haired , hath lifted eastward" - [Yajur Veda 4] "HE [Agni] in midair's expanse hath golden tresses" - [Rig Veda 1] "For new prosperity we seek to Agni, him whose course is splendid, gold-haired, excellently bright" - [Rig Veda 3] "By slaying the Dasyus (natives), he [Indra] protected the Aryan color" - [Rig Veda 3] "Indra protected in battle the Aryan worshipper, he subdued the lawless for Manu (Noah) , he conquered the black skin." - [Rigveda, Book 1, Indra 130.8 (I.CXXX.8)] "the thunderer who bestowed on his white friends the fields, bestowed the sun, bestowed the waters." - [Rigveda, Book 1, Indra 100.18 (I.C.18) "Thou to the son of Vidathin, Rjisvan, Thou smotest down the swarthy fifty thousand, and rentest forts as age consumes a garment." - [Rig Veda , Indra - 4.16.13] "Active and bright have they come forth, impetuous in speed like bulls, driving the black skin far away." - [Rig veda , Soma Pavamana - 9.41.1] “The sacrificer poured out thanks to his god for scattering the slave bands of black descent", and for stamping out "the vile Dasyan colour." - [ Rig Veda . II.20.7, II.12.4 ] "O'er Sire and Mother they have roared in unison bright with the verse of praise, burning up riteless men, Blowing away with supernatural might from earth and from the heavens the swarthy skin which Indra hates." - [Rig Veda , Soma Pavamana - 9.73.5] " Indra in battles help his Aryan worshipper, he who hath hundred helps at hand in every fray, in frays that win the light of heaven. Plaguing the lawless he gave up to Manu's seed the dusky skin; Blazing, 'twere, he burns each covetous man away, he burns, the tyrannous away." - [Rig Veda , Book 1] "Black skin is impious" (Dasam varnam adharam) - [ Rigveda, Book 2, Indra 12.4 (2.XXII.4) [ Muir Pt.I, p.43, II, p.284, 323 etc.] "the vile Dasyan (native) colour." - [Rigveda, Book 2, Indra 20.7, 12.4 (2.XX.7, 2.XII.4) “ the black skin, the hated of Indra" - [Rigveda, Book 9, Soma Pavamana .IX.73.5 ] "Thou, Indra, art the destroyer of all the cities, the slayer of the Dasyus , the prosperer of man, the lord of the sky." - [Rigveda, Book 8, Indra 87.6 (8.LXXXVII.6) [ Muir I.175 ]