VI

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

Sweet, sweet, sweet, O Pan!

      Piercing sweet by the river!

Blinding sweet, O great god Pan!

The sun on the hill forgot to die,

And the lilies revived, and the dragon-fly

      Came back to dream on the river.

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