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THE JEWISH CONSCRIPT; IN RUSSIA, by                    
First Line: They have dressed me up in a soldier's dress
Last Line: He also died in vain.
Subject(s): Jews; Russia - Army-military Life; World War I; Judaism; First World War


Christ also suffered, the righteous for the unrighteous.

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 doom us to bear
The flaming message of peace!

We are the mock and the sport of time!
Yet why should I complain!—
For the Jew that they hung on the bloody cross,
He also died in vain.





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