Ravenna's Walls

Ravenna's walls, a chosen seat,
Where Gothic kings and Romans meet.
An orchard bloomed, a civil art,
A new regime, a different start.

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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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