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Original lyrics
Nitlayokoya
Nitlayokoya, niknotlamatiya
san, nitepiltsin Nesaualkoyotl
xochitika ye iuan kuikatika
nikimilnamiki tepiluan,
ain oyake,
yejua Tesosomoktsin,
o yejuan Kuajkuajtsin.
Ok nelin nemoan,
kenonamikan.
¡Maya nikintoka in intepiluan,
maya nikimonitkili toxochiu!
Ma ik itech nonasi,
yektli yan kuikatl in Tesosomoktsin.
O aik ompoliuis in moteyo,
¡nopiltsin, Tesosomoktsin!
Anka sa ye in mokuik a ika
niualchoka,
in san niualiknotlamatiko,
nontiya.
San niualayokoya, niknotlamati.
Ayokik, ayok,
kenmanian,
titechyaitakiu in tlaltipak,
ika nontiya.
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citlālicue on 2015-05-29Last edited by citlālicue on 2018-03-18
citlālicue on 2018-03-18Translation
I Am Sad
I am sad, I grieve
I, lord Nezahualcoyotl.
With flowers and with songs
I remember the princes,
those who went away,
Tezozomoctzin,
and that one Cuacuauhtzin.
Truly they live,
there Where-in-Someway-One-Exists?
O, that I might follow the princes,
take them, our flowers!
If I could but make mine
the beautiful songs of Tezozomoctzin!
Never will your name perish,
O my lord, you Tezozomoctzin!
Thus longing for your songs,
I am grieving,
alone I have come to remain saddened,
I withdraw from myself.
I have become saddened, I grieve.
No longer you are here, no longer,
but in the region Where-in-Some-Way-One-Exists.
You have left us without sustenance on the earth,
for this I withdraw from myself.
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citlālicue on 2015-05-30Last edited by citlālicue on 2023-12-06
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Nezahualcóyotl: Top 3
| 1. | Xon Ahuiyacan |
| 2. | Nonantzin |
| 3. | Xopan cuicatl |
Idioms from "Nitlayokoya"
| 1. | have one's way |
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Translation from Miguel Leon-Portilla's "Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World", page 93-94. Published October 2000 by the University of Oklahoma Press.