The Goths' Pride

He saved his people, his family too,
Checked the Franks' advance, their conquest untrue.
Though kinsman fell, in rash display,
He guarded his own, come what may.

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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