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The poem is quoted in the 1992 movie The Last of His Tribe. During a campfire, Dr. Saxton Pope, played by David Ogden Stiers, quotes most of the poem in a dramatic fashion.
In The Wizard of Oz, the Cowardly Lion quotes Mandalay during his famous "Courage" speech. "And the dawn comes up like thunder."
A sung rendition of the poem is performed in an episode of Rumpole of the Bailey, "Rumpole and the Show Folk".
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