In 1891 Jose Marti wrote a wonderful poem to Orestes Ferrara's wife, Maria Luisa Sanches, in Tampa (Ibor City,) Florida.

To Maria Luisa Sanches:

There is only one consolation
in the barbaric world of war
the stars in the sky
and the girls on the earth

The morning has no rival
with its pale and pure light
but, yes, there is a rival, your tenderness,
pale Cuban girl.

I say, my slender girl,
there in my home of martydom,
that I have seen in Ibor city an Iris
with hair flowing freely.

Jose Marti