EMPIRE'S FAILURE

If you were considered
a failure to the Empire
it was off to Australia
and another culture

It was no easier support
under the tsar or Kaisar
in Russia or Prussia
there is a war or to deport

Yet the poor followed
as exiles of state
slowly and surely to endure
through miles of real estate

No chance of being demure
or waiting on chance
for a sharp traveler's venture
to remake their lives secure.