text:  The shades of darkness seemed to live and move to struggle against the bright beams that fell amongst them and broke their masses forcing them down the wooded heights tearing them asunder and dispersing them like tissues of cobwebs; so that successively and as if by a stroke of enchantment there appeared first the deep indigo blue of the tamarinds and chicozapotes then the bright green of the sugar-canes lower down the darker green of the nopal-trees lower still the white and green and gold and bright yellow of the orange and citron groves and lowest of all the stately fan-palms and date-palms and bananas; all glittering with millions of dewdrops that covered them like a ganze veil embroidered with diamonds and rubies