A Native American song that described Mexico before the coming of Europeans:

There was then no sickness.

They had then no aching bones.

They had then no high fever.

They had then no smallpox.

They had then no burning chest.

They had then no abdominal pains.

They had then no consumption.

They had then no headache.

At that time the course of humanity was orderly.

The foreigners made it otherwise when they arrived here.

Source:

John Mack Faragher, and others, Out of Many: A History of the American People (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1994).