With their souls of patent leather,
they come down the road.
Hunched and nocturnal,
Where they breathe they impose,
silence of dark rubber,
and fear of fine sand.
Source: Romance de la Guardia Civil Espa?ola.
-- Federico Garcia Lorca, (Jun 5 1898-1936), Spanish poet, dramatist; He was noted for his poems of death and for his dramatic trilogy: Blood Wedding,1933; Yerma, 1934; and The House of Bernarda Alba, 1936.