Narrator
A German soldier in his journal wrote:
The German Soldier
HE was a French Boy Scout— a little lad
No bigger than my Hansel. He refused
To tell if any of his countrymen
Were hidden thereabout. Fifty yards on
We ran into an ambush. Well, of course
We shot him— little fool! Poor little fool!
The German Soldier
Thinking himself a hero as he stood
Facing our guns, so little and so young
Against the sunny vineyard-green, I thought
What wasted courage! for the child was brave,
Fool as he was. The pity...
*
Narrator
Here there came
A sudden shrapnel, and the writing stopped....
*
The German Soldier
Did I write that? O God— did I write that?
The German Soldier
Mine— they were mine, the folly and the waste.
The German Soldier
Now the keen edge of death has cut away
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