Benevolence State

by Wilfred Owen · Freedom & Justice

When seasons turned, and harvests failed,
The state's precaution, never derailed.
Magazines filled, prices controlled,
Exportation forbidden, stories told.

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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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