Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GERMAN OUT-CAST, by W. FREDRIC KAUFMAN


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GERMAN OUT-CAST, by                    
First Line: A little lad is born
Last Line: A little lad was born -- a jew.
Subject(s): Ambition; Jews; Religious Discrimination; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Judaism; Religious Conflict


A little lad is born,
Ambition in his tiny heart.
Before he ever meets the world,
Something is strangely, radically wrong.

In youth he finds his comrades gone,
Yet disillusion does not kill
Ambition for a future life --
His study, his thoughts are his alone.

Ambition now to be fulfilled,
Manhood comes at last --
Emerging alone, but for those of his kind
He carries on, shunned and despised.

Ambition now fulfilled,
Success is his alone --
His life then ebbs away
And as he carried on, he dies -- alone.

Birth, youth, manhood, death --
With it ambition to success
Yet why so shunned, despised, alone?
A little lad was born -- a Jew.





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