Filipinos, Remember Us Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEF GHGH IJIJ KGKG LGLG GMGM NONO GOGO PQPQ OOOO ABAB RORO| You if it fall to you to take | A |
| From us the lamp that Athens gave | B |
| Fill it with mercy for our sake | A |
| And light us gently to the grave | B |
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| The Goth and Vandal rendered not | C |
| For evil good but all in vain | D |
| Have we your victors prayed and taught | E |
| If through you freedom bleeds again | F |
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| Bound home but blown across the sea | G |
| In earth that clings about his feet | H |
| The whinchat bears the seedling tree | G |
| And plants the sterile lands with wheat | H |
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| But we we shipped with slime for freight | I |
| Unknown to us what in it grew | J |
| And brought untoward to our hate | I |
| The germ of Liberty to you | J |
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| When you have armed and joined the East | K |
| To swell the Peril which affrights | G |
| Our bloody conscience at the feast | K |
| Where Fate the ancient curse re writes | G |
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| When the White Peril slumber bound | L |
| Gorged full the sport of bottle flies | G |
| Awakes to find you on his ground | L |
| Puissant cynical and wise | G |
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| Kicking his childish lies and frauds | G |
| 'Round infamy's quiescent yard | M |
| And raking from the wall the gawds | G |
| Despite the dull and drunken guard | M |
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| Or battering down the entrance door | N |
| Long shut while yours was opened wide | O |
| To forage in our golden store | N |
| Our rich possessions to divide | O |
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| To us it were but poor amends | G |
| Our sons with hatred to entreat | O |
| Remember us who were your friends | G |
| Right in the battle's blood and heat | O |
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| For our sakes centuries sunk in sleep | P |
| Who strove to stave the certain doom | Q |
| Our brothers' sons forgive and keep | P |
| The flower of Liberty in bloom | Q |
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| Move not in blindness as of old | O |
| The unconscious Hun devoured the land | O |
| You must with history's page unrolled | O |
| Be god like in your great command | O |
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| Yes if it fall to you to take | A |
| From us the lamp that Athens gave | B |
| Fill it with gladness for our sake | A |
| Restore the weak and free the slave | B |
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| Fill every place of waste with love | R |
| And every land of woe with light | O |
| Till Peace the pentecostal dove | R |
| Descend and consecrate your might | O |
Edgar Lee Masters
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