Axis & Allies - damowords

The Ottoman Decay
As just heroes raise the race of empires
Heavenward, where even Jove hears his name,
They set great sceptres, wasted, mid the pyres;
Handsomely branding with a famous flame
Lord Byron stands
For Hellas & her sons,
Landing upon white sands guides, horses, gold & guns.
Having lived with the Venetians
Neath the vile Austrian yoke
Having ridden with Albanians,
Breathing songs thro campfire smoke,
Tasso‐heart pours out ambitions
To eager Grecian folk,
Inspiring them to seize their native soil ‐
By one mosquito‐bite his blood aboil.
& as the spirit of Romance
Fell at Missolonghi,
The Greeks advance, seizing their chance
To win back Liberty,
Sending the ageing Ottoman scuttling across the sea.
1832
Greece
Year of Revolutions
Like little catalysts do acorns grow
Into great oaks, as conflict turns to wars,
The German nations promise to bestow
Her speech upon the Hanseatic shores;
Spreading the bind
To Sleswick & Holstein,
From now on Elbe shall find her sister in the Rhine.
The wars spread mighty rapidly;
Fresh new French revolution,
While Venetia & Lombardy
Drive out the hated Austrian ‐
Seeds of a modern Italy,
A new Napoleon,
Far from Metternich & old Vienna,
Decrees himself, ʺGuardian of Order!ʺ
As the Russians saddle horses
Britain looks on concernʹd,
Her resources & armʹd forces
Have many times returnʹd
Across the straits & still the scales of balance not yet earnʹd.
Europe
1848