That bunch of white acacia blooms

Whiffed past my nostrils hot perfumes.

As in a cool neveria

I ate an ice with Mérimée,

Dark Carmencita, you passed gay,

All holiday bedizenéd,

A new mantilla on your head;

A crimson dress bespangled fierce;

And crescent gold, hung in your ears,

Shone wrought Morisco; and each shoe