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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india,net.politics,net.nlang.africa,net.poems
Subject: Re: The White Man's burden
Message-ID: <1896@peora.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 23:09:21 EST
Article-I.D.: peora.1896
Posted: Tue Jan  7 23:09:21 1986
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Keywords: censorship, poetic license
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		 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 ...
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