The Capitoline Hill

On Capitoline Hill, his steps he pressed,
A conqueror's footprint, put to the test.
Trajan's Forum, a wonder to behold,
A story in stone, centuries old.

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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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