Which author penned the lines “Take up the White Man’s burden—Send forth the best ye breed—” to encourage Western Europeans to promote a noble and enlightened form of colonialism?

Explanation

The poem containing the phrase “Take up the White Man’s burden—Send forth the best ye breed—” was written by Rudyard Kipling. He aimed to motivate Western Europeans to embrace their colonial responsibilities as a moral duty. Charles Baudelaire and William Butler Yeats were poets of different themes, while Napoleon III was a political leader, not a poet.