Northern expansion meant subduing the native people
Legion after legion was fed into the grinder
Modern France was known as Gaul
From changing fortunes, the Gauls rose up
To be crushed back down, growing none the wiser
Alesia called to all parties to witness the fall
After Vercingetorix was taken in chains
The Gauls no longer needed a reminder
Romans answered the call
Across the Rhine into Germania were a people
Unlike any others, afire with courage
Though they were Celts, they were different
No people could have sold their lives for more
Roman probes along the frontier never flourished
Each tribe bore Rome grave belligerence
At last Augustus ordered General Varus and three Legions
Into an ambush, no one remained to dare the Rhine's current
A border settled, Germania forever remained resistant
