43rd sonnet added to Malagilion: Soniton Pangasinan based on the story of Father Odorico, an Italian missionary and ambassador to China during the reign of Emperor Ming. He was aboard an Arab ship bound to China in 1324 when they were hit by a storm. They disembarked and found shelter in the coasts of Talamasin (Bolinao). Talamasin at that time was ruled by King Dalisay, the father of Princess Urduja. Father Odorico offered a thanksgiving mass in that place and christened some inhabitants. When the sea was calm, they resumed their voyage.
Talamasin is the Tawalisi in the accounts of Ibn Batuta who probably saw the coasts while he was on his way to China in 1344 or 1347.
Talamasin (Bolinao), 1324
onong ed sulsulat nen Batuta
anengneng to'y dali'y Tawalisi
no iner nanuley si Urduja
ya kinalakia'y Kaboloan
oala met so sakey ya istorya
onong ed say praylin Italianon
si Odorico na Pordenone
ya ambasador tan misionario
luga'y baloto paunla'd Tsina
nen asabat da'y maksil a bagyo
sinmakbit ira ed Talamasin
ya panaarian nen Dalisay
diman agao'y Masanton Misa
para'd saray bilay ya asalba
In the News: Tagore and some Nobel laureates
In 1912 only seven hundred fifty copies of Gitanjali -- Song Offerings -- were printed at the initiative of the India Society for private circulation among its members. In March 1913 McMillan took it up for publication and distribution. The book was reprinted ten times before the award of the Nobel prize on 13 November.
In his telegram thanking the Swedish Academy for the Nobel prize Tagore quoted from Gitanjali the following lines from verse sixty-three: "Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not. Thou hast given me seats in houses not my own. Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger."
Alfred Nobel's will stipulated that prize-winners must have an 'idealistic tendency'. The selection committee had already considered and passed over Tolstoy, Ibsen, Zola, Strindberg, Shaw and Yeats. In 1913 they preferred Tagore to Thomas Hardy.
Talamasin is the Tawalisi in the accounts of Ibn Batuta who probably saw the coasts while he was on his way to China in 1344 or 1347.
Talamasin (Bolinao), 1324
onong ed sulsulat nen Batuta
anengneng to'y dali'y Tawalisi
no iner nanuley si Urduja
ya kinalakia'y Kaboloan
oala met so sakey ya istorya
onong ed say praylin Italianon
si Odorico na Pordenone
ya ambasador tan misionario
luga'y baloto paunla'd Tsina
nen asabat da'y maksil a bagyo
sinmakbit ira ed Talamasin
ya panaarian nen Dalisay
diman agao'y Masanton Misa
para'd saray bilay ya asalba
In the News: Tagore and some Nobel laureates
In 1912 only seven hundred fifty copies of Gitanjali -- Song Offerings -- were printed at the initiative of the India Society for private circulation among its members. In March 1913 McMillan took it up for publication and distribution. The book was reprinted ten times before the award of the Nobel prize on 13 November.
In his telegram thanking the Swedish Academy for the Nobel prize Tagore quoted from Gitanjali the following lines from verse sixty-three: "Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not. Thou hast given me seats in houses not my own. Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger."
Alfred Nobel's will stipulated that prize-winners must have an 'idealistic tendency'. The selection committee had already considered and passed over Tolstoy, Ibsen, Zola, Strindberg, Shaw and Yeats. In 1913 they preferred Tagore to Thomas Hardy.
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