Axis & Allies - damowords

Two Emporers
With thrilling conquest quickʹning converse still
Celtic bastions of the misty west
Slowly eroded by the Roman will
Til only the Pictish paint defies conquest;
Tough nut to crack,
Trajan turns his eyes East
Imperial attacks upon Persia increasʹd.
Trajan enters his death‐chargʹd hour
His empire vast extended,
& grants Hadrian godlike power,
Their world must be defended ‐
But grapes of the Euprhates sour,
There the drive east ended,
While southern push choked on the Sahara
& Gothic shock blockʹd northern Europa.
Upon a tour of Albion
He saw the ravages
Inflicted on each proud legion
By Scottish savages,
ʺOur world ends here!ʺ the wall east‐steerʹd to stop the pillagers.
Lugdovallium
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Constantius
As Athensʹ sheer Acropolis did rise
To marvel man & rival Heavenʹs gates
Then slowly weakenʹd by the sea‐salt skies
When cracking marble glory dissapates;
The Roman realm
On stressful fault survives,
Brow‐batterʹd at the helm by blunt assassin knives.
The emporerʹs prefferʹd legion
To these painted problems ride,
Bouyʹd by the pagan pantheon,
His young blood‐son by his side,
Death for many a flaming dun
Restores the Roman pride ‐
When of grim warfare he had won his fill
He turns for Rome, burning a fevʹrish ill.
& when Constantius did die,
His Britons full of praise,
Up climbs a cry, up to the sky
His son the soldiers raise,
On battle‐broadenʹd shoulders shorn from Caledon’s braw
days.
York
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