Law and Order

Italian hands, the law maintained,
Revenue collected, order obtained.
Seven consuls ruled, three correctors too,
Fifteen regions governed, tried and true.

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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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