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By Luis G. Dato Upon these deeps in days remotely old, A daring band of Malays flung their sails Intrepidly. On tempests, storms, and gales, On ocean furies, full their valor told, Each gust a grave, each grave a tale…
Filipino Poet, Writer and Educator
By Luis G. Dato Upon these deeps in days remotely old, A daring band of Malays flung their sails Intrepidly. On tempests, storms, and gales, On ocean furies, full their valor told, Each gust a grave, each grave a tale…
By Luis G. Dato I From Asia’s teeming highlands, coasts, and bays,They ploughed the outmost rim of ocean foam,In pathless deeps envisioning their home,Where suns perennial drop unsalted rays,They ventured from the people-trodden ways,And in their light, swift-winged barangays,The seas…