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Wrapped in a white penitential robe

On the top of an oxcar

Through the streets to the execution site

Hustling through the sanguinary crowd

Bring the convict to the scaffold

Lash him with iron chains to the ground

Let him hear the headsman pass the sentence

May he deserve the imminent ordeal

Break the delinquent on the wheel

Pain and abasement

The headsmen are well versed with their trade

Under the rules of penal jurisdiction

Wooden spokes

Iron mountings on the rim

Dropped down with power

To break the limbs

Slowly from the lower legs up to the arms

Shattered bones, maltreated limbs

Braided easily through the spokes of the wheel

As a cenotaph, raised up on a pile

Evil treatment as retaliation for the wicked deeds

Bring the convict to the scaffold

Lash him with iron chains to the ground

Let him hear the headsman pass the sentence

May he deserve the imminent ordeal