...honor us though dead! Oh, Kinsmen! We must meet the common foe; Though far outnumbered, let us still be brave, And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!...murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but — righting back! Christopher Morley 1910 and was Rhodes Scholar at New College, Oxford, England,...

...be thou must crush me for thy use, Grind on, O potent God, and do thy will ! with the defiance of " Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack Pressed to the wall, dying, but — fighting back ! " in an oft-quoted modern poem by a Jamaican Negro poet, Claude McKay, shows the new spirit that...

...though dead ! Oh, kinsmen ! We must meet the common foe ; Though far outnumbered, let us stiff be braver And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow !...murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but — fig"1' ing back I1 'Claude McKay. The new poetry is not irreligious. No poetry that seeks to express,...

...poem, "If We Must Die": If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot Like men we'll face the murderous cowardly pack Pressed to the wall, dying but fighting back, Jefferson does end up learning the lesson his godmother asks the teacher to teach, to a great extent...

...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? 5 See Tom Redcam's review of "An All-Jamaican...

...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...pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! (McKay 1937, 21) Despite the benefits McKay garnered from Harris's advice, their relationship cooled...

..."Returning Soldiers" were to be clearly heard in the Jamaican poet Claude McKay's ardent "If We Must Die": And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What...pack. Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! But Du Bois and the NAACP were civil rights militants, not social revolutionaries—defenders of the...

...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...pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! When Countee Cullen in 1925 published Color, a volume of lyric poetry, his poem Incident about a little...

...virile people— a spirit eloquently expressed in the defiant lines of the Jamaican poet, Claude McKay: Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back.1 1 . These lines come from "If We Must Die," which is included in the creative writing section...

...captured the essence of the spirit of the New Negro. "If we must die, let it not be like hogs . . . (but) like men we'll face the murderous cowardly pack, pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!"84 Restoring George's Manhood Rights During the summer of 1925 five Pullman porters, operating...