Italia's Bounty

From Apulia's fields, to Sicily's grain,
Rome's granaries filled, again and again.
With bread and with meat, the citizens fed,
While markets and games filled hearts with dread.

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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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