@3Christ also suffered, the righteous for the unrighteous.@1 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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THALATTA! THALATTA!; CRY OF THE TEN THOUSAND by JOSEPH BROWNLEE BROWN THE PRAIRIES by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT THE TESTAMENT OF CRESSEID by ROBERT HENRYSON EVANGELINE; A TALE OF ACADIE by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW SONNET: 22. TO THE SAME [CYRIACK SKINNER] by JOHN MILTON |