And then our reunions In front of your house near the cafe. We discussed our battles And friends whom we left. Always in our small chat: Souville, Douaumont and la Caillette, But I saw in your blue eyes, As a reflection of heavens.
You left early in the morning, Knowing sure, the stage lasts. And then when we think of going far, It is necessary to save its frame. But leaving for all eternity In the country of the equality, You would have owed as in Verdun, My small friend, to shake hands with me.
But indeed says him, to God the Father, Because Verdun was a hell, That he reserves you for the paradise A place for you and your friends, And all the fighters of the earth. A prayer: held in contempt the war, And all, us will shake hands, In good friends, in the truth friends.
Henri Eugène LALLIER 1891-1976
To my friend Marcel BOURGEOIS formers of the 147ème R.I.
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