Nature
The Garden of Pan (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Let the shaggy cliff of the Dryads be silent, and the springs welling from the rock, and the many-mingled bleating of the ewes; for Pan himself makes music on his melodious pipe, running his supple lip over the jointed reeds; and around him stand up to dance with glad feet the water-nymphs and the nymphs of the oakwood.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Plato. “The Garden of Pan (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/plato/33/.
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Plato. “The Garden of Pan (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/plato/33/.
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