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PAN IS DEAD by EZRA POUND

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First Line: PAN IS DEAD. GREAT PAN IS DEAD
Last Line: "UPON SUCH HOLLOW SEASON?"

"Pan is dead. Great Pan is dead.
Ah! bow your heads, ye maidens all,
And weave ye him his coronal."

@3"There is no summer in the leaves,
And withered are the sedges;
How shall we weave a coronal,
Or gather floral pledges@1?"

"That I may not say, Ladies.
Death was ever a churl.
That I may not say, Ladies.
How should he show a reason,
That he has taken our Lord away
Upon such hollow season?"



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