Istria's Shore

A new Campania, on Adriatic's breast,
Istria's bounty, put to the test.
A hundred miles sailed, to Ravenna's gate,
Connecting the provinces, sealing their fate.

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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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