The Emperor's Ire

Servilely copied, Rome's worn-out ways,
While jealousy stirred, in Anastasius' gaze.
A war was kindled, on Dacian **ground,**
By Gothic protection, swiftly **found.**

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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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