Rizal Course: A Self-Study Guide - Part VIII and IX

 

VIII. Important Dates in Rizal’s Time

 

VIII- A. Remember the dates below and associate one or more significant events with these dates:

 

• June 19, 1861
• May 3, 1882
• November 3, 1882
• December 31, 1882
• March 21, 1887
• February 15, 1889
• May 6, 1889
• July 6, 1892
• December 30, 1896

 

VIII-B. Take note of other important historical dates.

 

 

IX. Memorize these passages written by Dr. Jose Rizal, national hero of the Philippines.

 

"Whoever knows not how to love his native tongue Is worse than any beast or evil smelling fish."

 

"Why do the scented bowers

In fragrant fray

Rival each other’s flowers

This festive day?..."

 

"Sweet mother, they celebrate

Your natal day…."

 

"I yet recall a village plain,

My joy, my family, my boon,

Besides the freshly cool lagoon, -

The spot for which my heart beats warm."

 

"The vital breath of prudent education

Instills a virtue of enchanting power;

She lifts the motherland to highest station

And endless dazzling glories on her shower."

 

"Hold high the brow serene,

O youth, where now you stand.

Let the bright sheen

Of your grace be seen

Fair hope of my fatherland!"

 

"Thou, who now wouldst rise

On wings of rich emprise,

Seek from Olympian skies

Songs of sweetest strain,

Softer than ambrosial rain."

 

"You bid me now to strike the lyre,

That mute and torn so long has lain;

And yet I cannot wake the strain,

Nor  will the Muse one note inspire."

 

"A plant I am, that scarcely grown,

Was torn from out its Eastern bed,

Where all around perfume is shed

And life but as a dream is known;"

 

"Go to my native land, go, foreign flowers.

Sown by the traveler on his way.

And there, beneath its azure sky.

Where all my affections lie…."

 

"Bear then, O flowers, love’s message bear;

My love to all the lov’d ones there,…."

 

"Farewell, dear Fatherland, clime of the sun caress’d,

Pearl of the Orient seas, our Eden lost!

Gladly now I go to give thee this faded life’s best,

And were it brighter, fresher, or more blest,

Still would I give it thee, nor count the cost.

 

"On the field of battle, ‘mid frenzy of light,

Others have given their lives, without doubt or heed;

The place matters not – cypress or laurel or lily white,

Scaffold or open plain, combat or martyrdom’s plight,

‘Tis ever the same, to serve our home and country’s need."

 

 

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Rizal Course: A Self-Study Guide, Parts I and II

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Rizal Course: A Self-Study Guide, Parts III and IV

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Rizal Course: A Self-Study Guide, Parts V, VI and VII

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Rizal Course: A Self-Study Guide, Parts VIII and IX

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