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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,