Barbarian Restraint

The conquerors' violence, slowed its pace,
By legal cunning, time and space.
Civil administration, honors refined,
To Italians confined, a different kind.

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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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