Royal Edicts

An architect skilled, with funds assigned,
For common sewers, strength enshrined.
To protect the works, of art and might,
Theodoric's care, ever so bright.

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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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