Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Great Regulars: The poet's name is José Rizal,

a true renaissance man, and now hailed as the liberator of the Philippines. He had written this poem the night before he was executed in 1896 by the Spanish, who still occupied and ruled the Philippines as its colony.

from Linda Sue Grimes: BellaOnline: Philippine Bill of 1902 and a Poem

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