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Bo choćby mi przyszło postradać me życie – | Tak wolę – niż żyć, a mieć w sercu ranę. | (Therefore I am writing the present petition/ So that only I may be punished with the sum of all our sentences,/ As—though it would fall upon me to lose my life—/ I prefer it so. —To staying alive with a wound in my heart). | The last stanza of the poem Dla Pana Pułkownika Różańskiego ("For Colonel Różański"), written by Pilecki on May 14, 1947 to the supervisor of his case in the 10th Block of the Mokotów Prison.