Consuls of East and West

East and West, a pact declared,
By consuls chosen, fates were shared.
The Italian named, by Theodoric's will,
Confirmed in the East, standing still.

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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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