Margus's Field

Sabinian advanced, with Roman might,
But Goths and Huns, won the hard-fought fight.
Provisions and arms, lay in defeat,
Spoils untouched, victory complete.

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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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