low-crooning

Updated: January 16, 2026

In Montezuma's castle, crumbling from roof to base The winds and rain of heaven ghosts of the past now chase. Where erstwhile the Great Spirit's children dwelt Forever hushed is the papoose's wail, and stilled the squaw's low-crooning lilt.

George (Henry George August) Hartmann - Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales