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“Let us behold the sacred flowery mountain. Let us marvel at the flowery plains. The precious crow flower (cacaloxochitl), the precious colored basket flowers (tecomaxochitl), the colored bone flowers (omixochitl), the colored popcorn flowers (izquixochitl), the precious heart flowers (yolloxochitl) spread about sparking and bursting preciously into bloom; the spread about blossoming, sparking, becoming preciously colored, becoming spattered in precious hues, becoming sprinkñed with gold; they lie bunched togerher on the ground.”

Probably composed by Faustino Chimalpopoca Galicia (1802?-1877).

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