V

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

'This is the way,' laughed the great god Pan,

      Laughed while he sate by the river,)

'The only way, since gods began

To make sweet music, they could succeed.'

Then, dropping his mouth to a hole in the reed,

      He blew in power by the river.

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