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Quotation from Lepanto by G. K. Chesterton
“Cervantes on his galley sets the sword back in the sheath (Don John of Austria rides homeward with a wreath.) And he sees across a weary land a straggling road in Spain, Up which a lean and foolish knight for ever rides in vain”
Lepanto, Stanza 9 (Poems, 1915)
The close, in which the Lepanto veteran Cervantes glimpses the future Don Quixote.
Citation: "Cervantes on his galley sets the sword back in the sheath (Don John of Austria rides homeward with a wreath.) And he sees across a weary land a straggling road in Spain, Up which a lean and foolish knight for ever rides in vain" — G. K. Chesterton, Lepanto, Stanza 9 (Poems, 1915). (id lepanto-q6)
Portrait: The Battle of Lepanto, 7 October 1571, Unidentified painter, Public domain.
