God save our gracious Queen,
Long live our Gloria Queen,
God save the Queen!
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long her FVR to reign over us;
God save the Queen!
O Lord our God arise,
Scatter her enemies
And make them fall;
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their Coryist and MBC tricks,
On Thee our hopes we fix,
God save us all!
Thy choicest EVATs in store
On her be pleased to pour;
Long may her FVR reign;
May she defend our laws,
And ever give us cause
To sing with heart and voice,
God save the Queen!
Not in this
But be God's mercies known,
From shore to shore!
Lord make the nations see,
That she will not resign be,
And form one Parliament to see,
The wide world over.
From every latent foe,
From the Cabinet’s blow,
God save the Queen!
O'er her thine arm extend,
For
Our taxman, prince, and friend,
God save the Queen!
Lord grant that her General
May by thy mighty aid
Victory bring.
May he sedition hush,
And like a torrent rush,
Rebellious Party Listers, Liberals to crush.
God save the Queen!
"So often have we been haunted by the spectre of subversion which, with some fostering, has come to be a positive and real being, whose very name steals our serenity and makes us commit the greatest blunders... If before the reality, instead of changing the fear of one is increased, and the confusion of the other is exacerbated, then they must be left in the hands of time..." Dr Jose Rizal "To the Filipino People and their Government" Jose Rizal dominates the Luneta, which is sacred to the Philippine nation as a place of martyrdom. And many perhaps all of those executed in the Luneta, with the exception of the three Filipino secular priests martyred in 1872, have read Rizal's El Filibusterismo . Dr Rizal's second novel is a darker and more sinister one that its prequel but has much significance across the century and more after it was published for it preaches the need for revolution with caveats, which are when the time is right and who will in...
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