Diego de Landa, archbishop of Yucatan
—The curse of God upon his pious soul—
Placed all their Devil’s picture-books under ban
And, piling them in one sin-heap, burned the whole;
But took the trouble to keep the calendar
By which the Devil had taught them to count time.
The impious creatures had tallied back as far
As ninety million years before Eve’s crime.
That was enough: they burned the Mayan books,
Saved souls and kept their own in proper trim.
Diego de Landa in heaven always looks
Towards God: God never looks at him.
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