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Bezig met laden... Conquistadordoor Archibald MacLeish
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MacLeish had followed the path of Cortez and his soldiers through Mexico and used his knowledge of the topography of the Mexican landscape and Diaz's account in his poetic re-imagining.
The narrator is Diaz, at the end of this life, recounting his story of the conquest and wondering at its effects:
"The tedious veteran jealous of his fame!"
What is my fame or the fame of these my companions?
Their tombs are the bellies of Indians: theirs are the shameful
Graves in the wild earth: in the Godless sand:
None know the place of their bones: as for mine
Strangers will dig my grave in a stony land:
Even my sons have the strangeness of dark kind in them:
Indian dogs will bark at dusk by my sepulchre:
What is my fame! ( )