Cassiodorus's Verse

Through Cassiodorus, learning's light,
Shone on his reign, both day and night.
A minister's wisdom, a scholar's pen dipped,
Reflecting the glory, skillfully scripted.

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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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