Tugon

Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa by Andres Bonifacio

Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang LupaTula ni Andres Bonifacio
Aling pag-ibig pa ang hihigit kaya
Sa pagkadalisay at pagkadakila
Gaya ng pag-ibig sa tinubuang lupa?
Alin pag-ibig pa?
Wala na nga, wala.
Ulit-ulitin mang basahin ng isipat
isa-isahing talastasing pilitang salita't buhay
na limbag at titik ng isang katauhan ito'y namamasid.
Banal na pag-ibig pag ikaw ang nukalsa tapat na puso ng sino't alinman,imbit taong gubat, maralita't mangmangnagiging dakila at iginagalang.Pagpupuring lubos ang nagiging hangadsa bayan ng taong may dangal na ingat,umawit, tumula, kumatha't sumulat,kalakhan din nila'y isinisiwalat.Walang mahalagang hindi inihandogng pusong mahal sa Bayang nagkupkop,dugo, yaman, dunong, katiisa't pagod,buhay ma'y abuting magkalagot-lagot.Bakit? Ano itong sakdal nang lakina hinahandugan ng buong pag kasina sa lalong mahal kapangyayariat ginugugulan ng buhay na iwi.Ay! Ito'y ang Inang Bayang tinubuan,siya'y ina't tangi na kinamulatanng kawili-wiling liwanag ng arawna nagbibigay init sa lunong katawan.

(English Translation: Love for thy Homeland

Is there any love that is nobler Purer and more sublime

Than the love of the native country?

What love is? Certainly none.

Though the mind may not cease reflecting

and sifting with perseverance What humanity has printed and written:

That will be the result, none other.

Sacred lovel when thou reignest

In a loyal heart, be it even

A plebeian's, a rustic's untutored

Thou makest it grand and revered.

To give the fatherland boundless honor

Is the purpose of all who are worthy

And who sing, or compose, or make verses

To spread their country's glory.

There is nothing worth having the patriot

Will not give for his native land:

Blood and wealth, and knowledge and effort,

Even life, to be crushed and taken.

Why? What thing of infinite greatness

Is this, that all knees should be bended Before it?

That it should be held higher

Than the things most precious, even life?)