The poem encourages Jose Rizal, a martyr of Philippine independence, not to rest in peace yet. There is still work to be done to strengthen the Filipino people and cross obstacles towards freedom. The Filipino people's strength and spirit have weakened under foreign domination. The author uses the molave tree as a symbol of resilience for the Filipino people to emulate - being firm, strong, and unafraid while retaining their own identity. The overall message is a call for Rizal and martyrs' spirits to inspire the Filipino people to build strength through sacrifice and regain independence.

1. HELLO!

2. Mechanics of the Game
Divide the class into two groups.
Each group will be assigned to
arrange the pieces of puzzle to them.
Each participating group will be given
one minute to form the puzzle. After
solving the puzzle, one member of
the group will shout “puzzle the title”.

3. The leading group will have the
chance to guess the title of the
poem out of the puzzle. If the group
fails to guess the correct title, the
chance will be given to the second
leading group.
The group who could give the
correct title will be declared as the
winner.

4. BY RAFAEL ZULUETA DA
COSTA

5. Not yet, Rizal, not yet.
Sleep not in peace:
There are a thousand
waters to be spanned;

6. There are a thousand
mountains to be
crossed;
There are a thousand
crosses to be borne.

7. Our shoulders are not
strong; our sinews are
grown flaccid with
dependence, smug
with ease under
another's wing. Rest
not in peace;

8. Not yet, Rizal, not yet.
The land has need
of young blood-and, what
younger than your own,
Forever spilled in the
great name of freedom,

9. Forever oblate on the altar of
the free? Not you alone,
Rizal. O souls
And spirits of the martyred
brave, arise!

10. Arise and scour the land!
Shed once again
your willing blood! Infuse the
vibrant red
into our thin anemic veins;

11. Until we pick up your
Promethean tools and,
strong,
Out of the depthless matrix of
your faith
in us,

12. and on the silent cliffs of
freedom,
we carve for all time your
marmoreal dream!

13. Until our people, seeing, are
become like the Molave,
firm, resilient, staunch,
rising on the hillside,
unafraid,
Strong in its own fiber, yes,
like the Molave!

15. Spanned
”There are a thousand waters to be
spanned ”
- to cross over something, to
cover

16. Borne
“There are a thousand crosses to
be borne”
-carried by

17. Sinews
“Our shoulders are not strong; our
sinews are
grown flaccid with dependence”
- solid resilient strength;
the chief supporting force

18. Flaccid
“our sinews are
grown flaccid with dependence”
-not firm; lacking vigor or
force

19. Smug
“smug with ease
under another's wing”
-highly self-satisfied

20. Oblate
“Forever oblate on the altar of
the free? “
- flattened or depressed at
the poles

21. Scour
“Arise and scour the land!“
- dig; to clear

22. Infuse
“Infuse the vibrant red
into our thin anemic veins”
- to be filled with something

23. Promethean
“we pick up your Promethean tools-
and, strong”
- relating or resembling
Prometheus, his experiences or
his art

24. Marmoreal
“we carve for all time your
marmoreal dream!”
- of relating to or suggestive
of a marble or a marble statue

25. Matrix
“Out of the depthless matrix of
your faith”
-something within or from which
something else originates,
develops, or takes form

26. Resilient
“Until our people, seeing, are become
like the Molave, firm, resilient, staunch”
- abe to become strong, healthy, or
successful again after something
bad happens

27. Staunch
“Until our people, seeing, are become
like the Molave, firm, resilient, staunch”
-very devoted or loyal to a
person, belief , or cause

29. What does the author want to imply in
these lines,
Not yet, Rizal, not yet. Sleep not in
peace:
There are a thousand waters to be
spanned;
there are a thousand mountains to be
crossed;
there are a thousand crosses to be
borne.

30. Why did the author choose
the molave as the ideal
symbol for the Filipino
people?

31. What does these lines mean?
Our shoulders are not strong;
our sinews are
grown flaccid with dependence,
smug with ease
under another's wing.

32. What is the significant
message of the poem?