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The Way of the Cross
They are white, like little Georgian crosses, crosses pinned to the much-suffering road.
Just like Georgian orders:
—For self-sacrifice.
And there was expressed, together with affliction, much warmth and much beauty.
"They" do the burying at nights.
Do not bury, but:
—Dig holes for the dead,
as the peasants say.
—Because it is without the requiem hymn. Surely such an act is not a burial.
In the daytime, at the stopping-places, at the relief and medical points, they:
—conceal their corpses,
fearing that they may be delayed by formalities:
—and remain behind!
They carry out the corpses from the forest where they have spent the night and bring them to the road.
