Nezahualcoyotl

[Asencion Garcia]

--- Asencion Garcia <n8upb at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > >
> > >This Aztec poem is engraved in stone above a door
> > in the courtyard
> > >of the Museo Natl. de Antropologia in Mexico, DF
> > and was the frontpiece
> > >of Eric Wolf's _Sons of the Shaking Earth_
> > >_________________________________________
> > >
> > >
> > >   "All the earth is a grave and nothing escapes
> > it;
> > >        nothing is so perfect that it does not
> > descend into
> > >          its tomb.
> > >   Rivers, rivulets, fountains and waters flow,
> > >        but never return to their joyful
> > beginnings;
> > >   Anxiously they hasten on to the vast realms of
> > the
> > >        rain god.
> > >  As they widen their banks, they also fashion
> > >        the sad urn of their burial.
> > >   Filled are the bowels of the earth with
> > pestilential
> > >         dust
> > >   once flesh and bone, once animate bodies of
> men
> > >         who sat upon thrones, decided cases,
> > presided in
> > >          council,
> > >    commanded armies, conquered provinces,
> > possessed
> > >         treasure, destroyed temples,
> > >    exulted in their pride, majesty, fortune,
> > praise and
> > >         power.
> > >
> > >   Vanished are these glories, just as the
> fearful
> > smoke
> > >         vanishes
> > >   that belches forth from the infernal fires of
> > >         Popocatepetl.
> > >   Nothing recalls them but the written page."
> > >
> > >                              ~Nezahualcoyotl
> > >                                    King of
> Texcoco
> >
>                                        1431-72
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> >
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