Living
Flies Have Alighted on the Shanks of Pan
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
Flies have alighted on the shanks of Pan,
And some have settled upon Homer's head;
We whisk them off with jewel- studded fan
Till few escape and many more lie dead.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Flies Have Alighted on the Shanks of Pan.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/896/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Flies Have Alighted on the Shanks of Pan.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/896/.
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