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PAN LEARNS MUSIC; FOR A SCULPTURE BY SARA GREENE by HENRY VAN DYKE

First Line: LIMBER-LIMBED, LAZY GOD, STRETCHED ON THE ROCK
Last Line: "OUT OF A RIVER-REED MUSIC FOR MAN!"
Subject(s): MUSIC & MUSICIANS; MYTHOLOGY - CLASSICAL; PAN (MYTHOLOGY); SCULPTURE & SCULPTORS;

LIMBER-limbed, lazy god, stretched on the rock,
Where is sweet Echo, and where is your flock?
What are you making here? "Listen," said Pan, --
"Out of a river-reed music for man!"



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