Gothic Sovereignty

From Sicily's shores, to Danube's flow,
Sirmium to the Atlantic, seeds did sow.
The fairest portion, the West's domain,
Acknowledged by Greeks, again and again.

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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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