ephemera

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 Feast of the Prayer-Beads -- on the occasion of Lepanto.

Cervantes on his galley sets the sword back in the sheath ...
And he sees across a weary land a straggling road in Spain,
Up which a lean and foolish knight forever rides in vain,
And he smiles, but not as Sultans smile, and settles back the blade....