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A Note from the Pipes
Pan, blow your pipes and I will be
Your fern, your
pool, your dream, your tree!
I heard you play, caught your swift eye,
"A pretty melody!" called
I,
"Hail, Pan!" And sought to pass you by.
Now blow your pipes and I will sing
To your sure lips' accompanying!
Wild God, who lifted me from earth,
Who taught me freedom, wisdom,
mirth,
Immortalized my body's worth, --
Blow, blow your pipes! And from afar
I'll come -- I'll be your bird,
your star,
Your wood, your nymph, your kiss, your rhyme,
And all your
godlike summer-time!
From: Rittenhouse, Jessie B.
The Second Book of Modern Verse (1919).
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This collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis.
Collection © 1999-2002 Jone Johnson Lewis.
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