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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PAN, by MURIEL BACHELER DAWKINS
First Line: The old earth lies asleep in the sun
Last Line: And what is heaven when he is by?
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Wellesley College
First Line: The old earth lies asleep in the sun
Last Line: And what is heaven when he is by?
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Wellesley College
THE old earth lies asleep in the sun,
Or moans and mumbles, telling his beads, --
Many's the sin that old earth's done,
Drowsing there in his beggar-weeds.
Many's the sin, but heart o' man!
Lilt of wind, and rush of sky!
A-piping down the road comes Pan,
And what is heaven when he is by?
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