The Senate's Praise

The Roman Senate, with titles grand,
Applauded the king, throughout the land.
A second Trajan, a Valentinian new,
His promise of justice, honest and true.

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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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