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    Rizal's Poem: To The Filipino Youth

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    Rizal submitted a poem entitled "To the Filipino Youth" to a poetry contest organized by the Manila Lyceum of Art and Literature in 1879. Though only 18 years old, he won first prize for this poem, which was dedicated to inspiring Filipino youth. The poem encourages youth to raise their heads high and infuse their minds with noble sentiments. It urges them to descend to the arena with arts and sciences and unleash their poetic genius to offer resplendent crowns for their native land.

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    Rizal submitted a poem entitled "To the Filipino Youth" to a poetry contest organized by the Manila Lyceum of Art and Literature in 1879. Though only 18 years old, he won first prize for this poem, which was dedicated to inspiring Filipino youth. The poem encourages youth to raise their heads high and infuse their minds with noble sentiments. It urges them to descend to the arena with arts and sciences and unleash their poetic genius to offer resplendent crowns for their native land.

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    Rizal submitted a poem entitled "To the Filipino Youth" to a poetry contest organized by the Manila Lyceum of Art and Literature in 1879. Though only 18 years old, he won first prize for this poem, which was dedicated to inspiring Filipino youth. The poem encourages youth to raise their heads high and infuse their minds with noble sentiments. It urges them to descend to the arena with arts and sciences and unleash their poetic genius to offer resplendent crowns for their native land.

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    Rizal's Poem: To The Filipino Youth

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    Rizal submitted a poem entitled "To the Filipino Youth" to a poetry contest organized by the Manila Lyceum of Art and Literature in 1879. Though only 18 years old, he won first prize for this poem, which was dedicated to inspiring Filipino youth. The poem encourages youth to raise their heads high and infuse their minds with noble sentiments. It urges them to descend to the arena with arts and sciences and unleash their poetic genius to offer resplendent crowns for their native land.

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    Rizal's Poem: To the Filipino Youth

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           When he was studying in UST, he submitted a poem entitled “To the Filipino Youth” for the poetry contest
    which had been organized for Filipinos by the Manila Lyceum of Art and Literature, and though he was but
    eighteen years of age (1879), he won the first prize, a silver pen. This poem, one of his most famous and most
    difficult to translate, was dedicated to the Filipino Youth.

    To the Filipino Youth

    Raise your unruffled brow


    On this day, Filipino youth!
    Resplendent shines
    Your courage rich,
    Handsome hope of my motherland!
    Fly, grand genius
    And infuse them with noble sentiment
    That vigorously rushes,
    More rapid than the wind,
    Its virgin mind to the glorious goal.
    Descend to the arena
    With the pleasant light of arts and sciences,
    And unbind, Youth,
    The heavy chain
    That fetters your poetic genius.
    See that in the bright zone
    With pious and learned hand,
    Offers the son of this native land
    Resplendent crown.
    You who ascend
    On wings of your rich fantasy,
    Seeking from Olympus in the clouds
    Tenderest poetry,
    Sweeter than nectar and ambrosia;
    You of the celestial accent,
    Melodious rival of the nightingale,
    Who with varied melodies
    Dissipate the mortal’s bitter pain
    In the night serene;
    You who animate the hand rock
    With the impulse of your mind,
    And with prepotent  hand makes eternal
    The pure memory
    Of the refulgent genius;
    And you, who with magic brushes
    Are wont to transfer to simple canvas
    The varied enchantment of Phoebus, beloved of
    Apollo divine,
    And the mantle of nature.
    Run! For the sacred flame
    Of the genius awaits to be crowned with laurels,
    Spreading fame
    With trumpet proclaiming
    O’er the wide sphere the mortal’s name.
    Day, oh happy day,
    Philippines genteel, for your soil!
    Bless the Almighty,
    Who with loving desire
    Sends you fortune and consolation.
    Posted 15th May 2013 by Eve

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