Odes and Other Poems (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Odes and Other Poems To The Great God Pan. O Soul of mine, that fain wouldst strive for ever, Fruitless the toil and fond the passioning, Thyself from thine own body thus to sever! Vain strife to seek in dim imagining The paradise that round thy feet doth lie - Here is the field where thou must live or die, Perish a slave or live a crowned king. Lo! it is naught this name Eternity! The bloom and blight of life are Time's alone, And Time, alas! is all too quickly flown. Ah, great god Pan, that pipst by reedy mere! Goat-footed, but with music in thy soul Whereat Apollo waxes pale to hear, And the sad Earth leaps to thy song's control, Thine is the goodlier gift, the wiser way - Do not all hidden lives of bird and beast, All creeping things and things that soulless feed On sunbeams, to thy heart their secrets say - And thou art of them, sharest in their feast And in their fast, knowest their inmost need. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.