******************************************** Beware, Spain, of your own Spain! Beware the sickle with no hammer! Beware the hammer with no sickle! Beware of the hapless victim! the hapless hangman, the hapless uncommitted! Beware of him who, before the cock crows, would deny you three times, and of him who, later on, denied you three times! Beware of skulls with tibias, and of tibias without skulls! Beware of the newly rich! Beware of the devourer of your corpses! Of he who devours your living dead! Beware of the one hundred percent loyal! Beware of heaven this side of the air! Of air the other side of heaven! Beware of those who love you! Beware of your heroes! Beware of your dead! Beware of the Republic! Beware of the future! . . .                                       --- César Vallejo                                       translated by Alvaro Cardona-Hine