The Bride of Huitzil—An Aztec Legend

The Bride of Huitzil—An Aztec Legend is a collection  of poems by Hervey Allen.

  The priests on twisted conch-shells blew,

    Shouted the market place;

    Hatred of Huitzil seized the king;

    He loved the maiden's face.

    She was a huntress, fair but poor,

    Sleek puma skins her dower,

    Traced through the jungle by their spoor

    Past many a vine-closed bower,

    Tracked to the hills and brought to bay,

    Slain by the ice-green streams,

    With the hissing arrow at break of day,

    When the wakened eagle screams.