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'Green was the maiden, green, green!
Green her eyes were, green her hair. . . .

Through the green air she came.
(The whole earth turned green for her.) . . .

Over the green sea she came.
(And even the sky turned green then.)'

'Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1959), Green, translated by J.B. Trend. From Nine Centuries of Spanish Literature, edited by Seymour Resnick and Jeanne Pasmantier, Dover, 1994.

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