Clovis's Ambition

The balance of the West, held firm and fast,
Till Clovis' ambition, shadows cast.
The rash kinsman fell, a tragic plight,
But saved his people, with all his might.

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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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