Category: Poetry
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"'Behold in me the source and spring of love; I followed with paternal care to Ind, I saw, and I stood guard upon your steps; More than a father's love was in my soul, More than...
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3. Chapter 3He raised the gem before the flaming sun; The rays concentered, and the flames burst forth As leaping to their master. 'Twas enough. The multitude, in thought, became as one. An...
4. Chapter 4They settle down to Winter, and their flocks Must furnish sustenance, until the sun Shall break their penance, and embrown the locks Of the o'ergristled seasons; and this won, T...
9. Chapter 9The people gather at the palace gates, And vengeance writes itself upon each face; Their generosity no longer waits, They spit upon, and spurn the outraged place. It harbors tho...
5. Chapter 5God drops no nobler anchorage on earth, Than those who mold a nation, and a name; Whose travail in the wilderness gives birth To some great epoch, without thought of fame. The p...
10. Chapter 10Thus cruelly shorn of her birthright, Malinche grows up as a servant In the house of this wealthy master, The playmate and charm of his children. She gathers the boon of content...
7. Chapter 7Another turn of fortune's fickle wheel. They journey to the South, and cast their lot Upon Mexitli's lovely plain; the heel Of other nations has forestalled the spot, And they m...
6. Chapter 6One thing, not far from truth, grew into form: The thought of one great, universal heart, That beat against the window pane of thought, And formed of all existences a part. How...
8. Chapter 8"Thy empire has been purchased at this price, And cannot otherwise perpetuate. The earth and heaven, both have set their mark Upon the bosom of the placid lake; And by the comin...
11. Chapter 11The trial that sometimes had shadowed Comes at last in its fullness upon her, And the pride of Cortez seeks another For the place that is only Malinche's. And he offers to Don X...