Mythology & Folklore
Pan Learns Music
From The Poems of Henry van Dyke (1925)
Mythology & Folklore
Limber-limbed, lazy god, stretched on the rock,
Where is sweet Echo, and where is your flock?
What are you making here? "Listen," said Pan,--
"Out of a river-reed music for man!"
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Codex Note
From "Epigrams, Greetings, and Inscriptions". Subtitle in the source: For a Sculpture by Sara Greene.
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Dyke, Henry van. “Pan Learns Music.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/vandyke/103/.
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Dyke, Henry van. “Pan Learns Music.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/vandyke/103/.
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