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THE PIPES O' PAN by HENRY VAN DYKE

First Line: GREAT NATURE HAD A MILLION WORDS
Last Line: TILL MUSIC FILLED THE PIPES O' PAN.
Subject(s): MUSIC & MUSICIANS; MYTHOLOGY - CLASSICAL; PAN (MYTHOLOGY);

GREAT Nature had a million words,
In tongues of trees and songs of birds,
But none to breathe the heart of man,
Till Music filled the pipes o' Pan.



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