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Like The Molave

R. Zulueta da Costa

RAFAEL ZULUETA DA COSTA

Not yet, Rizal, not yet. Sleep not in peace:

There are a thousand waters to be spanned;

there are a thousand mountains to be crossed;

there are a thousand crosses to be borne.

Our shoulders are not strong; our sinews are

grown flaccid with dependence, smug with ease

under another's wing.

was born in Manila in 1915. He won the Commonwealth Lietrary Contest for poetry in 1940 with his poem,"Like the Molave."

His impotance rest mainly on his collection of poems, Like the Molave and other Poems. This book is divided into three parts:

Part Three, a patriotic invocation addressed to Jose Rizal.

Part One, "Like the Molave"

Part Two, a series of poems largely into music:

The Selections that follow are excerpts from "Like the Molave." The lines breathe a strong invocation to Rizal whome some critics consider not only the supreme example to be emulated by Filipinos but also a source of strenght and power for the whole nation

Rest not in peace;

Not yet, Rizal, not yet. The land has need

of young blood-and, what younger than your own,

Forever spilled in the great name of freedom,

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 fiber, yes, like the Molave!

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