Augustus's Policy

As Augustus hid, monarchy's dawn,
So Theodoric disguised, from dusk till morn.
A Barbarian's rule, a pleasing guise,
Beneath a Roman government, to their eyes.

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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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