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 "What have you done?"

"I am of yours,

I am the vicar at Saint-Bernard.

I had to, to escape from the others,

Stay eight days in a cupboard."

"What have you done?"

"Oh! Not big things,

Some misery and some children.

It's time for me to rest,

I'm seventy years old.

Let's go right away

And shoot me quickly."

Against the wall!

Said the captain,

Mouth full

And drinking hard,

Against the wall!

"What have you done?"

"Here are two lists

With the names of a hundred scoundrels:

Women, children of communists,

I shot all these rascals!..."

"What have you done?"

"I am the widow

Of an officer killed at Bourget...

Oh! Hold on, here is the proof:

Look, please...

Oh! I'm still wearing

My tricolour armband."

Against the wall!

Said the captain,