"Only a Boche," Robert Service

Only a BocheWe brought him in from between the lines: we'd better have let him lie;For what's the use of risking one's skin for a tyke that's going to die?What's the use of tearing him loose under a gruelling fire,When he's shot in the head, and worse than dead, and all messed up on the wire?However, I say, we brought him in. Diable! The mud was bad;The trench was crooked and greasy and high, and