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Out of it all but this remains	A
I was with one who crossed wide chains	A
Of the Cordilleras whose peaks	B
Lock in the wilds of Yucatan	C
Chiapas and Honduras Weeks	B
And then a city that no man	C
Had ever seen so dim and old	D
No chronicle has ever told	D
The history of men who piled	E
Its temples and huge teocallis	B
Among mimosa blooming valleys	B
Or how its altars were defiled	E
With human blood whose idols there	F
With eyes of stone still stand and stare	F
So old the moon can only know	G
How old since ancient forests grow	G
On mighty wall and pyramid	E
Huge ce bas whose trunks were scarred	E
With ages and dense yuccas hid	E
Fanes 'mid the cacti scarlet starred	E
I looked upon its paven ways	B
And saw it in its kingliest days	B
When from the lordly palace one	H
A victim walked with prince and priest	E
Who turned brown faces toward the east	E
In worship of the rising sun	H
At night ten hundred temples' spires	B
On gold burnt everlasting fires	B
Uxmal Palenque or Copan	H
I know not Only how no man	H
Had ever seen and still my soul	I
Believes it vaster than the three	J
Volcanic rock walled in the whole	I
Lost in the woods as in some sea	J
I only read its hieroglyphs	B
Perused its monster monoliths	B
Of death gigantic heads and read	E
The pictured codex of its fate	E
The perished Toltec while in hate	E
Mad monkeys cursed me as if dead	E
Priests of its past had taken form	K
To guard its ruined shrines from harm	L

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