One morning, at the hour when the half-awakened sun, trampling down the lingering shadows of the west, spreads his ruby-tinted tresses over jessamines and roses, drying with cloths of gold Aurora's tears of mingled fire and snow, which the snow's rays converted into pearls.

Una mañana, á la hora
Que, medio dormido el sol,
Atropellando las sombras
Del ocaso, desmaraña
Sobre jazmines y rosas
Rubios cabellos, que enjuga
Con paños de oro á la aurora
Lagrimas de fuego y nieve,
Que el sol convirtió en aljófar.

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