Children’s Crusade

Jason Schneiderman

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When we reached Genoa, and the sea did not
open, and we were offered homes or exile,
there was little choice. We had survived the hot
summer, the frozen Alps. Yet another trial
in our service of God. We left the weak behind
and walked to Pisa. The coastline was bleak,

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