With that metaphor, the great Tagalog poet Jose Corazon de Jesus (a.k.a. huseng Batute) approved the Kapampangan transalation of his verse novel Gloria by an obscure poet from Pampanga, Roman Leoncio.

This was in the late 1920s, when the literary scene in Pampanga was percolating with publications and performances whose sheer number, variety and quality would invite comparison with the Elizabethan Age. The same scene was occurring just across the Pampanga River, home of another ethno-linguistic tribe, the Tagalogs, whose destiny and role in history alternately merged and parted and sometimes collided with that of the Kapampangans.

As Huseng Batute and Roman Leoncio showed the kinship of Tagalogs and Kapampangans, so have the people behind this publication crossed the river ang other great divides to prove that regional languages are nothing but ways of expressing the same national spirit.

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