Song, (from Cantares Mexicanos)

Song is a flower-place[1] within my soul.

The vapor-scent befuddles me.

My heart grows sweetly drunk in the joy-place

Before the Ever-Present[2], Ever-Near

Image: Two Aztec singer/shamans, Codex Borbonicus, Paris

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[1] Compound words are a stylistic feature of the flowery Nahuatl of Cantares Mexicanos.

[2] “The Ever-Present” is a frequent refrain in Nahuatl song texts  (Cantares Mexicanos)