Abundance Reigns

So great the plenty, the grateful soil bore,
Wine sold for pence, and wheat and more.
A land of riches, a prosperous state,
Where labor and luxury, sealed the fate.

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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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