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    This document summarizes the life and poetry of a late beloved Filipino poet. It discusses how the poet was the last of a distinct school of Philippine poets and that he had the sweetest lyre that ever throbbed with malayan chords. It also references an excerpt from a poem called "The Rose Was Not So Fair O Alma Mater" written about the poet by his niece and talks about how there were two women in a chapel each seemingly taking their own space but also aware of the other.

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    This document summarizes the life and poetry of a late beloved Filipino poet. It discusses how the poet was the last of a distinct school of Philippine poets and that he had the sweetest lyre that ever throbbed with malayan chords. It also references an excerpt from a poem called "The Rose Was Not So Fair O Alma Mater" written about the poet by his niece and talks about how there were two women in a chapel each seemingly taking their own space but also aware of the other.

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    The Chieftest Mourner: Aida Rivera Ford

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    Jan Vindhya Jopson Prades
    This document summarizes the life and poetry of a late beloved Filipino poet. It discusses how the poet was the last of a distinct school of Philippine poets and that he had the sweetest lyre that ever throbbed with malayan chords. It also references an excerpt from a poem called "The Rose Was Not So Fair O Alma Mater" written about the poet by his niece and talks about how there were two women in a chapel each seemingly taking their own space but also aware of the other.

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    THE CHIEFTEST MOURNER

    Aida Rivera Ford


    --the last of a distinct school of Philippine poets

    --the sweetest lyre that ever throbbed with malayan chords

    “The Rose Was Not So Fair O Alma Mater”


    by the niece of the late beloved Filipino Poet

    My Uncle—The Poetry of His Life


    “There were two women, each taking possession of her
    portion of the chapel just as though stakes had been laid,
    seemingly unmindful of each other, yet revealing by his
    studied disregard that each was very much aware of the
    other.”

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