The Bounty of Soil

Such was the plenty, the grateful soil gave,
Wine at a farthing, a price to save.
A quarter of wheat, five shillings and six,
A land of abundance, no one itricts.

About Wilfred Owen

War poet whose visceral, anti-war verse exposed the horrors of trench warfare; killed one week before Armistice.

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