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Don Quixote

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

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