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��THE JEWISH CONSCRIPT
(There are nearly a quarter of a million Jews in the Czar's army alone. — Newspaper clipping.)
TuEY have dressed me up in a soldier's dress,
With a rifle in my hand, And have sent me bravely forth to shoot
]\Iy own in a foreign land.
Oh, many shall die for the fields of their homes,
And many in conquest wild, But I shall die for the fatherland
That murdered my little child.
How many hundreds of years ago —
The nations wax and cease ! — Did the God of our fathers doom us to bear
The flaming message of peace !
We are the mock and the sport of time I
Yet why should I complain ! — For a Jew that they hung on the bloody cross.
He also died in vain.
— Florence Kiper Frank.
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