In the canon
Cantares Mexicanos
Anonymous
- Form
- Form Poetry Collection
- Year
- Year 1585
- Originally in
- Originally in Nahuatl
- Pages
- Pages 220
Songs in the language of the Aztecs, written down after the conquest by people who lived through it: flowers and drums and the shortness of life, and laments for a city that has fallen and a world that has ended.
Ah, my song begins within the flower house, / And I carry my little one safe in my arms.
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