II

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

He tore out a reed, the great god Pan,

      From the deep cool bed of the river:

The limpid water turbidly ran,

And the broken lilies a-dying lay,

And the dragon-fly had fled away,

      Ere he brought it out of the river.

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