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.
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.”