Montezuma An Epic On the Origin And Fate of the Aztec Nation
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In the temple dust, Where man, with his immortal, had so strove To make the marble animate (in vain, MONTEZUMA. 83 Like other myriad phantoms of the brain) Time fashions into ghostly hands, that sternly point above. And so, God reaps involuntary praise, From every fashioning of man s design ; His w. Ivs, indeed, cannot be called our ways ; Yet his hozannas, from each crumbling shrine, Teach us the servitude of all the past; That human hands but fashion Heavenly aids ; That every sculptured myth...mark only fades Into eternal sunshine, at the last. Some crossed the mountain ramparts of the West ; Some lingered still upon the Eastern slope ; The empire yet was open to their zest, And all were buoyant with a new-born hope. But war, like pestilence, doth warp our lives, And like contagion, it infects the air. Peace comes in measure, but it never thrives Directly after conflict, till grows fair The flesh so lately scarred. Intestine war Made ravage of their ranks ; they ill could spare Their bravest, yet the first to fall in fraticidal jar.
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