Little round Pepíta, blondest maid

In all Bedmar—Pepíta, fair yet flecked,

Saucy of lip and nose, of hair as red

As breasts of robins stepping on the snow—

Who stands in front with little tapping feet,

And baby-dimpled hands that hide enclosed

Those sleeping crickets, the dark castanets.

George Eliot (The Spanish Gypsy).


And how then was the Devil drest?