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From The Wit and Humor of America, edited by Marshall P. Wilder, Volume III, New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls and Company, 1911; p. 574.


574

THE NEW VERSION

BY W. J. LAMPTON

A soldier of the Russians

Lay japanned at Tschrtzvkjskivitch,

There was lack of women’s nursing

And other comforts which

Might add to his last moments

And smooth his final way; — 

But a comrade stood beside him

To hear what he might say.

The japanned Russian faltered

As he took that comrade’s hand,

And he said: “I never more shall see

My own my native land;

Take a message and a token

To some distant friends of mine,

For I was born at Smnlxzrskgqrxzski,

Fair Smnlxzrskgqrxzski on the Irkztrvzkimnov.”











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