A la juventud filipina
A la juventud filipina (English Translation: To The Philippine Youth) is a poem written in Spanish by Filipino writer and patriot José Rizal, first presented in 1879 in Manila, while he was studying at the University of Santo Tomas."A la juventud filipina" was written by Rizal when he was only eighteen years old,[1] and was dedicated to the Filipino youth which he describes as "the fair hope of my motherland.It encourages them that they have the potential to achieve great things, "Come now, thou [Youth] genius grand, And bring down inspiration."In this poem, it is the Filipino youth who are the protagonists, whose "prodigious genius" making use of that education to build the future, was the "bella esperanza de la patria mía" (beautiful hope of the motherland).as “fair hope of my fatherland!” Alfredo S. Veloso made a translation of the poem into English.