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 their fields and 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!

Yet why should I complain!-

For a Jew that they hung on the bloody cross,

He also died in vain.

Florence Kiper Frank.