Sewers Below

Subterranean channels, a marvel unseen,
Twice a millennium old, yet strong and keen.
More wondrous than sights that meet the eye,
Rome's hidden strength, reaching for the sky.

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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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