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COUNTRY GODS by PLATO

First Line: SILENCE, DRYADS' LEAFY KEEP
Last Line: FOOT IT ROUND HIM, DANCING, DANCING.
SILENCE, Dryads' leafy keep;
Rocky fountains, hush your spraying;
Hush your babble, bleating sheep,
Pan is playing, Pan is playing.
O'er the clustered reed-pipe see
How his mellow lips are glancing;
Nymphs of fountain, nymphs of tree
Foot it round him, dancing, dancing.



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