“garÇon! you—you
    Snared along with this cursed crew?
(Only a child, and yet so bold,
Scarcely as much as ten years old!)
    Do you hear? do you know
Why the gendarmes put you there, in the row,
You, with those Commune wretches tall,
    With your face to the wall?”

“Know? To be sure I know! why not?
    We ’re here...