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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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