The Philippine Youth

TO THE PHILIPPINE YOUTH Jose Rizal Flourish, O timid flower! smelling up with a tranquil face, Philippine youth, on this sidereal day and shine, Manifesting the grace And gallantry of your line, Fair hope of this land of tap! Spirit of grandeur, uplift And fill them with a noble conjecture That will launch with a force more sprightly Than the winds acceleration Their virgin mind to its storied destination. Bearing the good light Of art and science, to the battleground Descend, O youth and smite: Loosen the heavy pound Of shackles that keeps poetic genius bound. See how the light runs pop up The passionate zone where dwelt the shadows; and How Spain, a splendid crown, With pious and wise hand, Offers the scion of this Indian land.





You who, questing, rise Upon the wings of your rich fantasy Into Olympian skies In quest of poetry More luscious than the food of god; You of the heavenly strain, A most melodious rival of Philomel1, Whose conglomerate refrain On still nights audible Dissipates the pain of kind hell; You who animate the hard rock with the impulse of light and can perpetuate with potent hand the vision of genius, for constant recognition; And you whose hand transfers With magic brushes to a simple add-in The robe that nature wears And varied beauty stored In Phoebus2, whom prognosticate Apelles3 adored: Make haste! The sacred flame Of genius, crowned Glory comes to crown; While circulating Fame Publishes up and down The universe a mortal names renown. O happy, happy day Is this, sweet Philippines, to your descent! Bless the manufacturing business sway Of God, whose love has sent Fortune shining upon you, and contented!*

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Philomel is a character in Greek Mythology who was turn into a nightingale. Phoebus is the sun god in Greek Mythology. 3 Apelles is a Greek painter who supposedly painted so well that even birds were deceived by the realistic qualities of the painting. * Translation by Nick Joaquin

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