Inscribed in a Copy of "The Return of Don Quixote"
" All that the thin Knight's thinner shadow here,
Shows forth — the Spaniard's steed, the Spaniard's spear —
Blend in your blazoned sign, dear Unicorn,
Summed up and symbolised in Horse and Horn
Since, white and wild, from the first legends flamed
One lance unbroken and one steed untamed.
Go: teach the doubters what they doubt — that we,
Who smell the wind beyond the world, are free;
That ours, not theirs, the light on lands untrod,
The galloping on the mountain, and the God;
That ours, not theirs, the thunderclap and the cry
When things too huge for fable hurtle by;
That doubts chain up the spirit, and dogmas free;
And, throned on marble, men see Liberty.
Say that the Knight called Errant did not err
To loose wild Honour and to follow her —
Say this: and then with all his friends be free
To burn this book with Quixote's library. "
Shows forth — the Spaniard's steed, the Spaniard's spear —
Blend in your blazoned sign, dear Unicorn,
Summed up and symbolised in Horse and Horn
Since, white and wild, from the first legends flamed
One lance unbroken and one steed untamed.
Go: teach the doubters what they doubt — that we,
Who smell the wind beyond the world, are free;
That ours, not theirs, the light on lands untrod,
The galloping on the mountain, and the God;
That ours, not theirs, the thunderclap and the cry
When things too huge for fable hurtle by;
That doubts chain up the spirit, and dogmas free;
And, throned on marble, men see Liberty.
Say that the Knight called Errant did not err
To loose wild Honour and to follow her —
Say this: and then with all his friends be free
To burn this book with Quixote's library. "
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