<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=383772" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Musical Instrument</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What was he doing, the great god Pan,<br> Down in the reeds by the river?<br>Spreading ruin and scattering ban,<br>Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat,<br>And breaking the golden lilies afloat<br> With the dragon-fly on the river.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He tore out a reed, the great god Pan,<br> From the deep cool bed of the river:<br>The limpid water turbidly ran,<br>And the broken lilies a-dying lay,<br>And the dragon-fly had fled away,<br> Ere he brought it out of the river.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">High on the shore sat the great god Pan<br> While turbidly flowed the river;<br>And hacked and hewed as a great god can,<br>With his hard bleak steel at the patient reed,<br>Till there was not a sign of the leaf indeed<br> To prove it fresh from the river.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He cut it short, did the great god Pan,<br> (How tall it stood in the river!)<br>Then drew the pith, like the heart of a man,<br>Steadily from the outside ring,<br>And notched the poor dry empty thing<br> In holes, as he sat by the river.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'This is the way,' laughed the great god Pan<br> (Laughed while he sat by the river),<br>'The only way, since gods began<br>To make sweet music, they could succeed.'<br>Then, dropping his mouth to a hole in the reed,<br> He blew in power by the river.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sweet, sweet, sweet, O Pan!<br> Piercing sweet by the river!<br>Blinding sweet, O great god Pan!<br>The sun on the hill forgot to die,<br>And the lilies revived, and the dragon-fly<br> Came back to dream on the river.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet half a beast is the great god Pan,<br> To laugh as he sits by the river,<br>Making a poet out of a man:<br>The true gods sigh for the cost and pain, --<br>For the reed which grows nevermore again<br> As a reed with the reeds in the river.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Barrett+Browning">Elizabeth Barrett Browning</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=383772" data-title="A Musical Instrument de Elizabeth Barrett Browning" data-description="What was he doing, the great god Pan, Down in the reeds by the river? Spreading ruin and scattering ban, Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat, And breaking the golden lilies afloat With the dragon-fly on the river. He tore out a reed, th..."></div> </div> </div>

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