Sunday, July 19, 2015

Stanza Sunday: from The Fall of Tenochtitlan

Weep, my people:
know that with these disasters
we have lost the Mexican nation.
The water has turned bitter,
our food is bitter!
These are the acts of the Giver of Life . . .
León-Portilla, Miguel. "The Fall of Tenochtitlan" The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006, 146.

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