I

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of A Musical Instrument

What was he doing, the great god Pan,

      Down in the reeds by the river?

Spreading ruin and scattering ban,

Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat,

And breaking the golden lilies afloat

      With the dragon-fly on the river.

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