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[Celestina G. <rat...@te...>]

 tenyo, inin cahuanca, campa neltiazque? Ca zan titlacatico ca ompa huel
tochan in canin ximoayan inocapa in yolihuayan aic tlamian. 5. Of what
use is it that I frame my sad songs, that I recall to mind the youths,
the beloved children, the precious relatives, the dear friends, famous
and celebrated as they were on earth? Who now hears their fame, their
deeds? Where can they find them? All of us are but mortal, and our home
is there in the Hereafter, where there is life without end. IV. _MEXICA
OTONCUICATL._ _AN OTOMI SONG OF THE MEXICANS._ 1.
Nicchalchiuhtonameyopetlahuaya, nictzinitzcanihuicaloaya, niquilnamiquia
nelhuayocuicatla, nic zacuanhuipanaya yectli yancuicatl nicuicani,
nicchalchiuhtlazonenelo ic nichualnextia in xochicueponallotl ic
nicellelquixtia in tloque in nahuaque. 1. I, the singer, polished my
noble new song like a shining emerald, I arranged it like the voice of
the tzinitzcan bird, I called to mind the essence of poetry, I set it in
order like the chant of the zacuan bird, I mingled it with the beauty of
the emerald, that I might make it appear like a rose bursting its bud,
so that I might rejoice the Cause of All. 2. Zacuantlazoihuiticaya
tzinitzcan tlauquechol ic nicyaimatia, nocuicatzin teocuitlatzitzilini
nocuic nitoz; miahuatototl nocuica cahuantimania, nicehuaya
xochitzetzelolpa ixpan in tloque nahuaque. 2. I skillfully arranged my
song like the lovely feathers of the zacuan bird, the tzinitzcan and the
quechol; I shall speak forth my song like the t