"The Jewish Conscript," Florence Kiper Frank

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The Jewish Conscript

There are nearly a quarter of a million Jews in the Czar's army alone. –Newspaper clipping.

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.

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...