| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | The Jewish Conscript | | By Florence Kiper Frank |
| | | | There are nearly a quarter of a million Jews in the Czar’s army alone. |
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THEY have dressed me up in a soldier’s dress, | |
| With a rifle in my hand, | |
| And have sent me bravely forth to shoot | |
| My own in a foreign land. | |
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| Oh, many shall die for the fields of their homes, | 5 |
| And many in conquest wild, | |
| But I shall die for the fatherland | |
| That murdered my little child. | |
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| How many hundreds of years ago— | |
| The nations wax and cease!— | 10 |
| Did the God of our fathers doom us to bear | |
| The flaming message of peace! | |
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| We are the mock and the sport of time! | |
| Yet why should I complain!— | |
| For a Jew that they hung on the bloody cross, | 15 |
| He also died in vain. | | | |
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