On receiving a bottle of Sherry Wine of the same name <br />WHAT 'blushing Hippocrene' is here! what fire <br />Of the 'warm South' with magic of old Spain! — <br />Through which again I seem to view the train <br />Of all Cervantes' dreams, his heart's desire: <br />The melancholy Knight, in gaunt attire <br />Of steel rides by upon the windmill-plain <br />With Sancho Panza by his side again, <br />While, heard afar, a swineherd from a byre <br />Winds a hoarse horn. <br />And all at once I see <br />The glory of that soul who rode upon <br />Impossible quests,— following a deathless dream <br />Of righted wrongs, that never were to be,— <br />Like many another champion who has gone <br />Questing a cause that perished like a dream.<br /><br />Madison Julius Cawein<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/don-quixote-7/
