That Poem in Man in the High Castle

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Specifically, Season 4, Episode 3. The character Bell Mallory beautifully recites this before the Black Communist Rebellion sets off on a mission. It’s absolutely gorgeous and I immediately went off to find it.

I really love Man in the High Castle and May write about it in the future, perhaps after I’m done with my work on The Crown!

If We Must Die

BY CLAUDE MCKAY

If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursèd lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!