Let people see, let people marvel in a house of colors. Let God
               Life Giver's
      creations be here.
By making us aware of his creations, God Life Giver torments
                us, causes
       us to crave his garden of song flowers.
Already in a springtime, in a springtime, we are walking here,
                upon this
       field. A green-swan downpour roars upon us in Water Plain.
Lightning strikes from the four directions. Golden flowers are 
                reviving.
       There, the Mexican princes are alive.  (XIV)


                             (John Bierhorst, trans., 
                              Cantares Mexicanos: Songs of the Aztecs,
                              (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1985)).