Open Thread: Pipe and Flute

Hosted by a statue of Pan

'With Pipe and Flute'

(To E. G.)

WITH pipe and flute the rustic Pan

Of old made music sweet for man;

And wonder hushed the warbling bird,

And closer drew the calm-eyed herd,--

The rolling river slowlier ran.

Ah! would,--ah! would, a little span,

Some air of Arcady could fan

This age of ours, too seldom stirred,

With pipe and flute!

But now for gold we plot and plan;

And from Beersheba unto Dan,

Apollo's self might pass unheard,

Or find the night-jar's note preferred;--

Not so it fared, when time began,

With pipe and flute! 

- Henry Austin Dobson

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