KUNDIMAN BY JOSE RIZAL -ENGLISH TRANSLATION

This is the ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF KUNDIMAN by JOSE RIZAL which was originally written in Tagalog. For Tagalog version, go to this page.

KUNDIMAN

Truly hushed today
Are my tongue and heart
Harm is discerned by love
And joy flies away,
'Cause the Country was
Vanquished and did yield
Through the negligence
Of the one who led.

But the sun will return to dawn;
In spite of everything
Subdued people
Will be liberated;
The Filipino name
Will return perhaps
And again become
In vogue in the world.

We shall shed
Blood and it shall flood
Only to emancipate
The native land;
While the designated time
Does not come,
Love will rest
And anxiety will sleep.




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