Lament on the Fall of Tenochtitlan
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- How can we save our homes, my people?
- The Aztecs are deserting the city
- The city is in flames and all
- is darkness and destruction
- 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.
- – By an anonymous Aztec poet, from "Unos Anales Históricos de la Nación Mexicana" ("Historical Annals of the Mexican Nation"), compiled in 1528, seven years after the fall of Tenochtitlan.