(영시) If We Must Die / BY CLAUDE MCKAY (1889-1948)
URL: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44694/if-we-must-die
If We Must Die.docx이하의 시는 A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 328쪽에 등장하는 詩이다.
If We Must Die
BY CLAUDE MCKAY (1889-1948)
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!
한국어 번역문: 미국민중사 2권 160쪽에 詩의 일부가 아래와 같이 번역되어 있다.
우리가 죽어야 한다면 / 클로드 매케이(1889-1848)
결국 죽을 운명이라면, 돼지처럼 죽지는 말자.
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인간처럼 저 잔인하고 비겁한 무리에 맞서리라.
벽에 짓눌려 죽는다 해도 끝까지 싸우리라!