Like a baby a long time in coming
Italy finally kicks its long leg
The '48 rebellions failed, teaching
Small Piedmont-Sardinia now to beg
For French help, which Cavour did, but a big
Favour was done by the Carbonara
Secret society's Orsini who flung
Three bombs at Napoleon, French emperor
Which pricked the latter's conscience. At Plombieres
He agreed to help Cavour removing
Austria from North Italy. Habsburg
Out, and the Bourbons too, the south area
From Sicily to Naples uniting
With the north, under Garibaldi's wing
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