Born from the nucleus, dreamed to be bigger,
Heart is for pumping and brain is for illusions.
Living in illusions, breathing out of time;
I am dead alive hardly know the meaning of life.
...
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.
... Read complete poem