Axis & Allies - damowords

Frederick the Great
As poet‐kings by growing nations crownʹd
& expeditions gravid to expand,
Teuton has a modern grandmaster found,
Swept thro Silesia & Sudetenland;
ʺSave Austria!ʺ
Empress Maria screams,
All thro Bohemia her well‐trainʹd army teems.
Vienna treats with Downing Street
As young Potsdam Paris charms ‐
With european war complete
Manʹs brutality alarms,
As children orphanʹd in the street
& snipers strafe the farms ‐
Since Mollwitz & the Chotusitz affrays
Europa plunged deep in death‐hungry days,
In which this Brandenburger shines,
In open glory tore,
Lover of wines, libretto lines
& genius for war
Bringing Prussian policies to the European fore.
Berlin
1744
Culloden
From frilly sleeves France slips the Stuart sword
& plays it like a Pittsburgh poker ace,
Imperial wars being fought abroad
To Inverness embattlʹd armies race;
Alexander
Ran with his manly sons,
Yelling altogether toward the English guns.
Clan Appin on the right flank fell,
Questing for King & country,
Eye‐slicing claymores faced Burell,
Gruesome ends of ancestry
As highland hopes turnʹd into hell,
Cumberlandʹs butcherie
MacDonald fled, thro all the fire & noise,
Haunted by those death‐moments of his boys.
He comforted his grieving wife,
ʺO my darlinʹ Clara,
Weʹve too much strife, a better life
Awaits America,ʺ
So sailʹd, with their sonsʹ families, from Scotland… forever!
Oban
1746