Cincinnati Conservatory of Music - Pans Pipers Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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CANDIDATES FOR DIPLOMA p Mw I r -' AIR , B O 0 K -II Page 47

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A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT HAT was he doing, the great god Pan, W 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 atioat With the dragontu on the river. 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-tly had fled away, Ere he brought it out of the river. High on the shore sat the great god Pan, While turbidly Howtd the river; And hack'd and hew'd as a great god can, With his hard bleak steel at the patient reed, Till there was not a sign of the Ieaf indeed To prove it fresh from the river. He cut it short, did the great god Pan, tHow tell it stood in the rivern Then drew the pith, like the heart of a man, Steadily from the outside ring, And notchid the poor dry empty thing In holes, as he sat by the river. This is the wa , laugh'd the great god Pan tLaughid whi e he sat by the riveri, 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, Sweet, sweet, sweet, 0 Pan! Piercing sweet by the river! Blinding sweet, 0 great god Pan! The sun on the hill forgot to die, And the lilies revived, and the dragomiiy Came back to dream on the river. Yet half a beast is the great god Pan, To laugh as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man: The true gods sigh for the cost and pain,- For the reed which ngS nevermore again As a reed with the reeds of the river. -ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. nge 46

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