Virtues and Talents

He loved the virtues, he himself possessed,
And talents he lacked, putting them to the test.
Liberius promoted, for faithful stand,
Odoacer's cause, in that troubled land.

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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