Wednesday, April 18, 2012

SONGBIRD’S MELODY

SONGBIRD’S MELODY

Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago


Songbird of the country

Please sing your tunes tirelessly

On valleys and hills

Sing afloat your theatre of amusement!


You are forever rewarded

With rice, shelter, care

By humble folks who truly cherish you.


Sing!

Sing for them! – the poor and wretched—


They who were left forlorn

By trusted lords

By false guardians of welfare

By deified magnates;

They who are now casting

New lives for themselves

New hopes toward betterment.


O! Songbird so dear!

Lift them up from slumber!


[Writ. 26 May 1988, Proj. 8, Quezon City, M.Manila.]






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