Song 19 - Music by the Elsie Dee Project. Lyrics by Rubén Darío. Rubén Darío traveled to Europe when symbolism was yielding to the fascination of modernism. In his own American way he succeeded to transplant the seed of modernism in Hispano-American poetry without breaking any bond with tradition. In these few verses taken from Rimas, he salutes the great Romantic G.A. Becquer.