OTHERS have divers paints and enamels, <br />Lavish and bright on breast and wing feathers: <br />You, Guatemalan, have sunken all colours <br />Into glory of greenness! <br /> <br />There may be palms as greenly resplendent, <br />Palms by the Fountain of Youth in Anahuac <br />Such greens there may be on sea-sunken bronzes <br />The Gates of Callao! <br /> <br />There may be words in rituals spoken <br />To Quetzalcoatl who makes verdure through rain-flow <br />Words like the gash made by knives of obsidian <br />To tell of such greenness!<br /><br />Padraic Colum<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-resplendent-quetzal-bird/
