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    Not Yet Rizal Not Yet

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    The poem talks about how the Philippines is not yet free and independent. There remains mountains to cross and rivers to span before achieving glory. It references Jose Rizal, a national hero who was executed for his role in the Philippine revolution. The country needs young people full of blood and spirit to continue fighting for freedom like Rizal and past martyrs did, until the dream of an independent Philippines is fully realized and carved into reality.

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    The poem talks about how the Philippines is not yet free and independent. There remains mountains to cross and rivers to span before achieving glory. It references Jose Rizal, a national hero who was executed for his role in the Philippine revolution. The country needs young people full of blood and spirit to continue fighting for freedom like Rizal and past martyrs did, until the dream of an independent Philippines is fully realized and carved into reality.

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    The poem talks about how the Philippines is not yet free and independent. There remains mountains to cross and rivers to span before achieving glory. It references Jose Rizal, a national hero who was executed for his role in the Philippine revolution. The country needs young people full of blood and spirit to continue fighting for freedom like Rizal and past martyrs did, until the dream of an independent Philippines is fully realized and carved into reality.

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    The poem talks about how the Philippines is not yet free and independent. There remains mountains to cross and rivers to span before achieving glory. It references Jose Rizal, a national hero who was executed for his role in the Philippine revolution. The country needs young people full of blood and spirit to continue fighting for freedom like Rizal and past martyrs did, until the dream of an independent Philippines is fully realized and carved into reality.

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    Not yet Rizal not yet Not yet Rizal not yet

    There are a thousand rivers to be spanned The glory hour will come
    There are a thousand mountains to be crossed Out of the silent dreaming
    There are a thousand crosses to be borne From the seven-thousand fold silence
    Our shoulders are not strong We shall emerge saying we are Filipinos
    Our sinews are grown flaccid with dependence And no longer be ashamed
    Smug with ease on another’s wing
    Rest not in peace Sleep not in peace
    The dream is not yet fully carved
    Not yet Rizal not yet Hard the wood but harder the blows
    The land has need of young blood Yet the molave will stand
    And what younger than your own Yet the molave monument will rise
    Forever spilled in the great name of freedom And gods walk on brown legs
    Forever oblate on the altar of the free

    Not you alone Rizal


    O souls and spirits of the martyred brave arise!
    Arise and scour the land
    Shed once again your willing blood
    Infuse the vibrant red into our thin anemic veins;
    until we pick up your Promethean tools and
    strong
    out of the depthless matrix of your faith in us
    and on the silent cliffs of freedom
    We carve for all time your marmoreal dream
    Until our people seeing
    are become like the molave
    Firm, resilient, staunch
    Rising on the hillside, unafraid
    Strong in its own fibre; yes like the molave

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