Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.
The Jewish ConscriptFlorence Kiper Frank
Newspaper clipping
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With a rifle in my hand,
And have sent me bravely forth to shoot
My own in a foreign land.
And many in conquest wild,
But I shall die for the fatherland
That murdered my little child.
The nations wax and cease!—
Did the God of our fathers doom us to bear
The flaming message of peace!
Yet why should I complain!—
For a Jew that they hung on the bloody cross,
He also died in vain.