The Stars can't shine without the night
Fire doesn't look beautiful without the dark
Remembering black absorbs rays of light
For when I look In my mirror, my soul cries out, my black is beautiful
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Good Kosciusko, thy great name alone
Is a full harvest whence to reap high feeling;
It comes upon us like the glorious pealing
Of the wide spheres -- an everlasting tone.
And now it tells me, that in worlds unknown,
The names of heroes, burst from clouds concealing,
And changed to harmonies, for ever stealing
Through cloudless blue, and round each silver throne.
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