War
At the gates of Rome
Hannibal
Ante portas
Hell
Will turn loose
Killing fields
Legions shall fall
First clash
Shores of Ticinus
Unwary Scipio
Wounded and defeated
Back
Legions retreat
First defeat
Mightier we get
--Sempronius
Filled with rush
Dead
Would become
Flaminius
Blindly in trap will fall
Fogs of death
Will engulf his men
Aemilius
With mightiest of legions
3 to 1
80 thousand men
Engulfed
By the concave plan
Cannae
The mightiest of battles
16 years will pass
And no one can rise
To prevail over the genius
Except for one man
With one insight
And will be known
As Scipio Africanus
And the famous lines
Take the war to Carthage
Which will save
The walls of Rome
The wrath they dread
The Carthaginian dishearten
Called back their son
To defend and defeat
The luring enemy
Behind their gates
As he returned in hurry
With missing horsemen
The wind will change
(As African allies
Will aid Rome
With decisive element
Men on horses!)
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