Marcelo H. del Pilar (1850–1896) Filipino writer, lawyer, and journalist (1850-1896)
Marcelo H. del Pilar, Sagót ng España sa Hibíc ng Filipinas (1889)
Sagót ng España sa Hibíc ng Filipinas
“O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?”
Act I, sc. i
Don Carlos (1787)
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of thunder and lightning,
of rain and wind,
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of the suns and the stars
and the void through which they travel.
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XI, 14
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