Of want and misery should fire you,

Or any man whose heart will mourn

More for wrecked lives than broken crockery.

This picture is not shaped in scorn,

Nor meant in mockery.

La Mancha's Knight, though brave, was blind,

Squire Sancho just a trifle credulous,

But our dear Don was nobly kind,

And in the cause of suffering sedulous.

If, mounting MALAMBRUNO's steed,