A Legislator's Lack

But genius lacked, for revolution's guide,
A legislator's role, he stepped aside.
Indulging the Goths, in freedom rude,
While copying rites, by Rome imbued.

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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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