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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.