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Created on: August 17, 2011
Connoisseurs of black encroach
Dark liberty ensues
Surreptitious mist on matchless sky
The red and white and blue
Love and hate, minds come to nought
Black tears to fall on stone
All shall ask and wonder at
Great hearts that stand alone
Forgiven chance and broken dreams
Unknowns approach to pale
To stand and count where you have been
Life spilled in shuttered gale
So stand and count to plainly see
The blazing torrent fanned
And heal the crack in Liberty
So God may Bless this Land
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