They are soldiers, not with guns and ammo,
But only masks, gloves and gears as they go,
Armed with drugs, hope, and most of all courage
Against the viral enemy’s black rage.
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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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