“Those hundred lovers
are asleep forever
beneath the dry earth.
Andalusia has
long, red-colored roads.
Córdoba, green olive trees
for placing a hundred crosses
to remember them.
Those hundred lovers
are asleep forever.”

— Federico García Lorca

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Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director 1898–1936

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