Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-01-28 | Page 3 | Poems of Aztecs Centuries Lost, Reported Found

POEMS OF AZTECS CENTURIES LOST REPORTED FOUND POUND CHICAGO Jan 8 stAi lAP lAP lAP-l Discovery ery cry of more than HO poems In three volumes belonging to the lost literature literature lit lit- of the th the loss ot of which scholars have lamented lor tor centuries was waa announced In a copyrighted copyrighted copy copy- righted story from Mexico City In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Chicago Dally Daily Tribune today The poems are surprisingly perfect per per- feet the Tribune says Their muir poetical form Is largely large trochaic or orthe orthe orthe the meter of Hiawatha and the tile Finnish national epic One volume contains 47 metrical metrical metri metri- cal stories In Aztec which Aztec pupils learned In schools and heathen heathen hea baa then temples before the white man manset manset manset set foot in America Another voLume volume vol voL- ume urne contains songs In Aztec under Under under un un- der the title Cantares Cantaras Mexicanos or Mexican Songs They comprise florid Imaginative poetic flower Dower songs drum songs and dance dunce choIn choruses cho cho- ruses In which hundreds of persons Joined Among nong the most Interesting or ot orthe the tue songs are several written by imy bYi bythe i i the prince poet-prince king kingor or of Texcoco e c At A the beginning ot or each c song the music u Is I Indicated d by bywords bywords words constitute the Aztec system of musical notations Just as I today we use do re re reo me sOd and BO su forth g Ji