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title: 'Rizal Died for You: Be Worthy of Him (English poster distributed in Asia)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/rizal-died-for-you-be-worthy-of-him-english-1950-1955/
description: A colour poster with a large profile portrait over a yellow manuscript of handwritten Spanish verse, headed 'Rizal died for you' ('you' underlined in red)
section: Collection
---

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# Rizal Died for You: Be Worthy of Him (English poster distributed in Asia)

A colour poster with a large profile portrait over a yellow manuscript of handwritten Spanish verse, headed 'Rizal died for you' ('you' underlined in red) and 'Be worthy of him'. At right stands a man in a barong-style shirt, trousers and salakot-style hat. The tell is transfer: the standing of José Rizal and his farewell poem is attached to the viewer's duty, and the unstated call to be 'worthy' is left undefined.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English; Spanish) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Adios, Patria adorada
Perla del mar de Orien[te]
A darte voy alegre [la]
Y fuera más brilla[nte]
También por ti la[...]
En campos de [...]
Otros te dan sus v[idas]
El sitio nada imp[orta]
Cadalso ó camp[o abierto]
Lo mismo es si lo [...]
Yo muero cua[ndo ...]
Y al fin anuncia[...]
Si grana necesita
Vierte la sangre [...]
Y dórela un refl[ejo]
Mis sueños cuand[o ...]
Mis sueños cuando
Fueron el verte un d[ía]
Secos los negros ojos, a[...]
Sin ceño, sin arruga
Ensueño de mi v[ida]
Salud, te grita el alma que pronto
Salud! ah que es hermoso caer por
Morir por darte vida morir bajo tu
Y en tu encantada tierra la eterni[dad]
Si sobre mi sepulcro vieres bro[tar]
Entre la espesa yerba sencilla
Acércala a tus labios y besa
Y sienta yo en mi frente ba[jo]
De tu ternura el soplo, d[e]
Deja á la luna vern
Deja que el alba envíe su r
Deja gemir al viento c

Rizal died for you
BE WORTHY OF HIM
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
[Handwritten Spanish, cut off at the right edge by the portrait; only the visible fragments are given] Farewell, adored Fatherland / Pearl of the Orient sea / I go gladly to give you [...] / And it would be brighter [...] / Also for you [...] / In fields of [...] / Others give you their lives / The place matters nothing / Scaffold or open field / It is the same if [the fatherland asks] / I die when [...] / If you need crimson / Pour out the blood [...] / And let a gleam gild it / My dreams when [...] / Were to see you one day / Dry the black eyes [...] / Without frown, without wrinkle / Dream of my life / Hail, the soul cries to you, soon / Hail! ah, how beautiful to fall for [you] / To die to give you life, to die beneath your [sky] / And in your enchanted land eternity / If over my grave you see [...] grow / Among the thick grass, a simple [flower] / Bring it to your lips and kiss [my soul] / And may I feel on my brow [...] / The breath of your tenderness [...] / Let the moon [...] / Let the dawn send its [light] / Let the wind moan [...]

Rizal died for you
BE WORTHY OF HIM
```

English headline and foot line are complete. The Spanish handwriting is partly covered by the portrait; only legible fragments are transcribed, with [...] marking what is hidden or unreadable.

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