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.