A "WOMAN'S EXECUTION, PARIS, MAY, 1871.
PT EDWARD KING, Sweet-breathed and young—
The people's daughter • No nerve unstrung — Going to slaughter ! "Good morning, friends ! You'll love us better— Make us arneuds ; We've burst your fetter ; " How the sun gleams ! (Women are snarling) ; Give me your beams, Liberty's darling ! Marie's my nameChrist's mother bore it. That badge ? No shame ; Glad that I wore it ! " ' (Hair to her waist ; Limbs like :i Venus ; Robes are displaced.) Soldiers, please screen us. " He at the front ? That js my lover ; Stood all the brunt ; Now the. fight's over : '' Powder and bread Gave out together. Droll to be dead Ib this bright weather ! "Jean, boy ! we might Have married in June ! This the wall? Right ! Vive la Commune ? "
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 206, 11 January 1872, Page 7
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123A "WOMAN'S EXECUTION, PARIS, MAY, 1871. Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 206, 11 January 1872, Page 7
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