Dalmatia's Mines

From Dalmatia's mines, the iron ore flowed,
Bruttium's gold, a treasure bestowed.
The Pomptine marshes, drained and made good,
Cultivated by undertakers, understood.

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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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