I Am Proud to be A Filipino For its every color is a history of courage, sacrifice, death

Toribia A. Mano Against injustice, tyranny, oppression and hate.

I am a Filipino. I came from islands rippled with sun I believe in my people as noble keepers of the faith:
Where days are green fires and nights are warm That all men are equal; that all men are free.
With moon and stars. Girdling my loins is blood rich as milk I believe with verdant and sprawling mountains, hills, valleys, plains,
For I was born of sultans, rajahs, kings, Lakes, waterfalls, rivers, sunsets, beaches
Soldiers, heroes who fought to sing And a generous sea. Alive, sovereign, wondrously happy in work and
The poetry of freedom. My house is my land Abundant with hope for my people.
I am proud to be a Filipino.
Virgin, brown, wombed out of loam, volcanic rock and shells,
Carpeted with rice, corn, coconut, cane, trees VOCABULARY WORDS:
That rise as temples to grapple winds
Rains, mighty rivers furrowing the earth. 1. I came from islands rippled with sun..
a. wrinkled b. smoothed c. cleared
Where I walk, my shadow is a marriage of flags
2. Girdling my loins is blood rich as milk..
a. enclosing b. unshackling c. unleashing
Malay, Chinese, Spanish, American, Japanese
3. Trees that rise as temples to grapple winds and rains
While in my bones sleep quietly as a bride
a. Embrace b. release c. wrestle
Vanquished desires of conquerors who dreamt of empires, 4. Mighty rivers furrowing the earth.
Gold, trade and spice. Though a paly breed A. Digging b. disappearing c. emptying
I stand with the ancients for my love and loyalty 5. Vanquished desires of conquerors
Are as fish to the sea. I am proud of my brownness, a. Victorious b. defeated c. released
My duty and destiny are thirty-million brown men 6. Grandeur of charity and peace
Planting rice, husking coconut, throwing nets far into the Pacific a. Greatness b. graveness c. seriousness
Hacking mountains of iron, coal, chrome, manganese and timber 7. a history of courage, sacrifice,
To live. We are one and the same. A moving, restless caravan a. bravery b. cowardice c. timidity
8. death against injustice, tyranny, oppression
Of dark brown skins building a holy heritage of democracy a. domination b. freedom c. kindness
Piece by piece with our dreams, sweat and death 9. believe with verdant and sprawling mountains
As a bird builds patiently twig by twig a. barren b. green c. withering
The warm, brown circle of its nest. a. cramped b. reserved c. expansive
I am a Filipino. I believe in the goodness and the bounty of God, 10. generous sea - a. Stingy b. small c. plentiful
I believe in the grandeur of charity and peace as a cure for the ills of man 11. abundant with hope – a. scarce b. lavish c. limited
For I am a Christian who looks upon all men 12. Your paly face scared me. A. pale b. rosy c. dark
As brothers whose task it is to love. 13. Hacking mountains of iron
I believe in my country and in the deathlessness of my flag A destroying b. building c. mining