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Rizal’s “Maria Clara’s Lullaby”

Rizal’s “Hymn to Labor”

Words by José Rizal

(Arranged from Chas. Derbyshire’s translation; lines in different order.)

Tune of “The Wearing of the Green”

Words by José Rizal

(Chas. Derbyshire’s translation)

Music by Juan Hernandez

RIZAL’S OWN STORY OF HIS LIFE

“IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND THERE ARE NAMES WHICH OF THEMSELVES SIGNIFY ACHIEVEMENTS. THEY CALL FORTH REVERENCE AND REMIND US OF GREATNESS.”

EDITED BY AUSTIN CRAIG, RIZAL RESEARCH-PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

National Book Company
MANILA 1918

Registered in the Philippine Islands

Printed in the United States of America (Philippine Islands)
Press of E. C. McCullough & Co., Manila, P. I.

Dr. W. W. Marquardt suggested this book.

Miss Josephine Craig advised and assisted in the selections.

Hon. C. E. Yeater read and criticised the original manuscript.

Miss M. W. Sproull revised the translations.

Dean Francisco Benitez acted as pedagogical adviser.

Miss Gertrude McVenn simplified the language for primary school use.

Mr. John C. Howe adapted and arranged the music.

Mr. Frederic H. Stevens planned the make-up and, in spite of wartime difficulties, provided the materials needed.

Mr. Chas. A. Kvist supervised the production.

Mr. C. H. Noronha, who, in 1897, in his Hongkong magazine Odds and Ends, first published Rizal’s farewell poem “My Last Thought”, was the careful and obliging proofreader.

Assistant Insular Architect Juan Arellano, a colleague of the editor on the Dapitan Rizal national park committee, designed the sampaguita decorations.

Mr. A. Garcia achieved creditable illustrations out of poorly preserved photographs whose historical accuracy has not been impaired by the slightest embellishment.

And the entire establishment of Messrs. E.C. McCullough & Company—printers, pressmen and bookbinders—labored zealously and enthusiastically to do credit to the imprint: “Made in Manila—The Work of Filipinos”.

The Memory of Rizal is kept alive in many ways:

1. A province near Manila bears his name.

2. The anniversary of his death is a public holiday.

3. A memorial school has been built by the Insular Government in his native town.

4. His home in exile has been made a national park.

5. The first destroyer of the future Philippine navy is named “Rizal”.

6. Rizal’s portrait appears on the two-peso bill.

7. Rizal’s portrait appears on the two-centavo postage stamp.

  • Rizal’s pencil sketch of himself
  • Rizal at 14
  • Rizal’s painting of his sister Saturnina
  • Rizal’s portrait on Philippine postage and money
  • Rizal’s home, Kalamba
  • Rizal’s mother and two of his sisters
  • Clay model of dog and cayman combat
  • Where Rizal went to school in Biñan
  • Rizal monument, Biñan
  • Santa Rosa Gate, on Biñan-Kalamba road
  • Model of a Dapitan woman at work
  • Rizal’s uncle
  • Rizal’s uncle’s home in Biñan
  • Guardia Civil soldier
  • Rizal’s mother
  • Rizal’s father
  • One of Rizal’s teachers, Terracotta bust by Rizal
  • Padre Sanchez, Rizal’s favorite teacher in the Ateneo
  • Carving of the Sacred Heart, made by Rizal in the Ateneo
  • Wooden bust of Rizal’s father
  • Rizal at 18
  • Rizal’s sacrifice of his life
  • Professor Burgos
  • The lake shore at Kalamba
  • A Manila school girl, drawn by Rizal
  • Rizal in Paris
  • Rizal at 30
  • Crayon portrait of Rizal’s cousin Leonore
  • Dapitan plaza and townhall
  • Wooden medallion of Mrs. José Rizal
  • Chalk pipehead, Rizal’s last modeling
  • Rizal at 27
  • Manila skyline, sketched by Rizal
  • Rizal at 22
  • Rizal at 24
  • Rizal at 26
  • Rizal at 28, from a group picture
  • Rizal at 28, profile
  • Rizal Mausoleum, Luneta, Manila
  • Noli Me Tangere manuscript-cover design, by Rizal
  • El Filibusterismo manuscript-cover, lettered by Rizal
  • Portrait of Rizal at time of finishing El Filibusterismo
  • Los Baños house where El Filibusterismo was begun, drawn by Rizal
  • Diploma of Merit awarded Rizal for allegory “The Council of the Gods”
  • Silver pen prize won by Rizal for poem “To Philippine Youth”
  • Alcohol lamp in which Rizal hid poem “My Last Thought”
  • Rizal’s Song “Hymn to Labor”
  • Rizal’s Song “Maria Clara’s Lullaby”
  • My Boyhood
  • My First Reading Lesson
  • My Childhood Impressions
  • The Spanish Schools of My Boyhood
  • The Turkey that Caused the Kalamba Land Trouble
  • From Japan to England Across America
  • My Deportation to Dapitan
  • Advice to a Nephew
  • Filipino Proverbs
  • Filipino Puzzles
  • Rizal’s “Don’ts”
  • Poem: Hymn to Labor
  • Memory Gems from Rizal’s Writings
  • Mariang Makiling

NOT BY RIZAL

  • The Memory of Rizal
  • Rizal Chronology
  • A Reading List
  • Philippine National Hymn (by José Palma)
  • Song: Hail, Philippines (by H. C. Theobald)