This is my country

Title: This is my country
Creator: Santos, Alfonso P.
Language: English
Source: Panorama Volume XIII (No.7) July 1961
Year: 1961
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Fulltext: is, is. mu do J by Alfonso P. Santos This is my country, my home, my nativeland; You will know her by the brown earth and the brown face; This is my freeworld: Philippines, my Philippines! By the narra, the sampaguita, and’ the kilyawan. You will hear her on the tongue of the Ilocano, The Tagalog, the Visayan, and the Mindanao lad; Smell her in the boiled rice, the daing, and the carabao; Taste her ir^the mango, the coconut, and the basi. her in the June rain and the March wind; Feel Jier in the October typhoons and the April heat; Jouch her everywhere from Batanes to Tawi-tawi, From Samar to Palawan and the waters around. This is my country, my freeworld; land dear and holy, Pride of all Filipinos, the glory of heroes great: Behold her round the sun with three stars bright, Behold her in the santang, sampaguita, and the blue-bell. Panorama
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