RIZAL’S ANNIVERSARY, 1965
By Luis G. Dato We have not yet forgotten you, Rizal Nor ever will, while yet we worship Right, Deeming it still transcendent over might, And for whose sake you heeded country’s call, Its welfare to equate with boon for…
Luis G. Dato
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OF RIZAL LET IT BE SAID
By Luis G. Dato Of Bagumbayan’s hero let us speak That future generations may with faith Abiding and eternal offer love Eternal and abiding. Liberty Which he espoused let not this late appear As lighted candle which moth’s wings must…
LIBERTY
By Luis G. Dato Liberty, this day we greet theeWith the dawn in face we meet thee,Fair of name and thus repeat thee,With thy song, liberty! Quezon, Hero-star defend us Whate’er the foe offend us, May the lightning falter rend…
THE FLAG
(Translation of “La Bandera” by Fernando Ma. Guerrero) By Luis G. Dato Time passes turbulent and blind, Vain dream now seems our Liberty! Yet faith lives still, and where I find Myself, my flag shall stand with me. It is…
SONNET (Postlude to Recto Eulogy on Pres. Roxas)
By Luis G. Dato The dead speak of the dead unto the living, And by the living little understood The trees they see too much to see the wood, And soul is lost in all the world’s mad striving. Of…
MI ULTIMO PENSAMIENTO
Mi Ultimo Pensamiento, a translation of Jose Rizal’s original Spanish Mi Ultimo Adios to English by Luis G. Dato in 1927. By Luis G. Dato Farewell, dear isles beloved of sea and sky, Where once we envisioned the gleam of…
