The Treaty of Berlin carved up the east
Thirty years before, but the aftershock
Was still rumbling on. The Ottoman beast
Was staggering to its fall, hands of the clock
At ten to midnight. Time for the Young Turk
Revolt, marching from Thessaloniki
To Constantinople, where they then broke
The Sultan's power. Bulgaria, though free
In fact since '78, officially
Declared independence, its tsar increased
His ego and desire for land, but look -
Austria-Hungary's old Franz-Josef, he
Annexed Bosnia, which before he just policed
Serbia and Russia took this painful knock
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