A Gentle Hand

Theodoric ruled, with gentle hand,
Justice and order, throughout the land.
He loved the virtues, he did not own,
And talents he lacked, seeds were sown.

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War poet whose visceral, anti-war verse exposed the horrors of trench warfare; killed one week before Armistice.

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