The Gepidæ's Fall

Rhætia, Noricum, Dalmatia's land,
Pannonia too, at Theodoric's command.
Reduced to order, unprofitable no more,
From Danube's source, to Sirmium's door.

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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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