Axis & Allies - damowords

Death of Chivalry
Beneath the pyramids the Sultan stands,
Protecting ancestral lands Islamic
From Ottoman conquest, his line expands,
Across the sands strange muskets chambers click;
Fathomless force
That is the flow of time
Electrifies his horseman on a charge sublime.
Those brave Aegyptians went to work,
Yank back drawstrings on their bows,
Their lust for bloodshed bled bezerk
As fannʹd one thousand arrows,
But images of future lurk
In the Turkish shadows ‐
The Mamluk line withers as winter rots
As masters of gunpowder blast their shots.
As Lion Kings must lose their pride
When old worlds meets the young
Lead‐ball wall wide of genocide,
Dead men from dead mounts flung
& knowing he would be the last, their last Sultan was hung
Cairo
1517
Iberia
Magellan proves the world a moving sphere,
Criss‐crossʹd & pin‐prickʹd by the flag of Spain,
Who yields a restless king, whose lands appear
As gardens of a globular domain;
Unto him comes
The Holy Roman crowns,
The roll of Spanish drums resounds thro Europeʹs towns.
He was a very handsome king
Fate had chose a special queen,
& sent her an engagement ring
Rows of diamondrie serene,
Her flowing dress more angel wing
Flooding the wedding scene ‐
Alhambra Palace held the honeymoon
Of warm love‐making in the afternoon.
Don Carlos kissʹd his Isobel,
With her scent delighted,
Seductive smell, the sunset fell,
Sweet verses recited,
Then enterʹd her with passionfire, with Portugal united!
Granada
1525