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You get through the big fort at Liège.
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You get through the kind of rough country,
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which is not too much.
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Then you hit the plat pays, the flatlands,
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and you roll toward the English Channel.
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The last thing Schlieffen reportedly said on his deathbed was,
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"The last soldier,
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his right arm should touch the English Channel."
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Then you turn down and you put Paris in a headlock,
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and they will sue for peace and you will beat them in two weeks
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before the big bear can come moseying along slowly.
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That's why mobilization was tantamount to an act of war,