A Musical Instrument. I. 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? II. He tore out a reed, the great god Pan, The limpid water turbidly ran, Ere he brought it out of the river. III. High on the shore sate the great god Pan, And hacked and hewed as a great god can, IV. He cut it short, did the great god Pan, (How tall it stood in the river!) Then drew the pith, like the heart of a man, Steadily from the outside ring, Then notched the poor dry empty thing In holes as he sate by the river. |