Jose Rizal - Kundiman (English Translation)

Now mute indeed are tongue and heart: <br />love shies away, joy stands apart. <br />Neglected by its leaders and defeated, <br />the country was subdued and it submitted. <br /> <br />But O the sun will shine again! <br />Itself the land shall disenchain; <br />and once more round the world with growing praise <br />shall sound the name of the Tagalog race. <br /> <br />We shall pour out our blood in a great flood <br />to liberate the parent sod; <br />but till that day arrives for which we weep, <br />love shall be mute, desire shall sleep.<br /><br />Jose Rizal<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem..../kundiman-english-tr