hspace in markup cancels other directives

[Jim Cline]

I am trying to use \hspace to adjust the horizontal position of a text 
markup.   In addition I want the text to be colored and smaller.  But the 
\hspace directive somehow disables the others, as in this example.

\version "2.20.0"
lower =
  \relative c {
   \time 3/4
  \clef bass
  bes^\markup{\smaller  \with-color #blue \hspace #-3 text} r4 
bes^\markup{\smaller  \with-color #blue  text}
}

\score {
    \new Staff = "lower" \lower
}

The second text has the right font and color, but the first one only has 
the right horizontal position. --Jim