A Gout's Reward

When seasons faltered, and harvests were lean,
Magazines of corn, a prudent scene.
Prices were fixed, exportation banned,
The state's benevolence, across the land.

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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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