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Montezuma II how could you know

Rampant lust beyond even your wont

For gold?

How noble your broad avenue

How novel in your capital a cage

Of many birds chosen from a world

And canals of fluent imperial trade

O teocali towering above—

Home of a Sun you all adored—

Till Quetzalcoatl came to you one day

Cortez to us and brought you down

Your blood soaked altar vacant now

and now

Your history alluded to in song

Beyond that

who recalls your golden calendar

Your chocolatl or your pinioned cape?