“In Arcady there lies a crystal spring
Ring'd all about with green melodious reeds
Swaying seal'd music up and down the wind.
Here on its time-defaced pedestal
The image of a half-forgotten God
Crumbles to its complete oblivion.”

—  Eleanor Farjeon

Pan-Worship
Pan-Worship and Other Poems (1908)

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