History & Politics
Moltke's Promise
From My Lyrical Life, Second Series (1889)
History & Politics
If only fourteen days are mine
To make all ready, I know
The French will never see our Rhine
And we shall take their rhino;
Napoleon will strike too late,
And ere his Fete-day meet his fate,
That will not tarry though he wait!
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Codex Note
From the section "War-Waits" of My Lyrical Life, Second Series (1889).
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