... cemeteries grow larger the number of defendants is smaller
yet the defense continues it will continue to the end
and if the City falls but a single man escapes
he will carry the City within himself on the roads of exile
he will be the City
we look in the face of hunger of fire face of death
worst of all -- the face of betrayal
and only our dreams have not been humiliated.

Zbigniew Herbert. Report from the besieged city. Poland, 1985.