Dead Pan, The
Wailing winds that make our wonders
Wing the everlasting goal;
Sighs like white mellifluous thunders
Waft my heart beyond the pole,
And my tongues’ reticence maunders:
Pan, Pan is dead!
Oh that ever brain should borrow
Grief’s immaculate despair
Ere our resonant Tomorrow
Fild with harm the lambent air
Yearning with the innocuous Horror
Now Pan is dead!
Pale Bellona waves the nimbus
Of electro’s Phython locks
Starred Hyperion shake Olympus
Down her quintessential socks!
Terror scales Poseidon’s Grampus
Now Pan is dead!
Kingly Zeus with regnant lightning
Veils the wild cadeus,
Through abysmal spaces whitening
Wailing Hermes wanton thus
“Lo Pean!” deeping, heightening—
Pan, Pan is dead!
Nomus howls to moaning Bacchus
“Evoke! Oh Evoke!”
Et Nox (vomica) com fracas
Yells her rhythmic agony!
Juno sobs to Telemachus
Pan Pan is dead!
Clings to Niobe, Adonis,
Ai Adonis! cold as stone!
Pallas throwned where Acharon’s
Mounts her aegis with a moan,
Eros’ wild circyclus [?] tone is
Pan Pan is dead!
Chaos, Ceres, Terra,Tethys,
Titans, Tritons, Pleiades.
Red Aurora, — how their breath is
Curdled on the gyrate seas!
All Uranus, Nemo saith, is
With Pan dead.
Phoebys burls an Aphoride
Pallid Mar’s Nepenthe casques
Till the sobs of blue-eyed Clytae
Burst Pandora’s Iron Mask
Hesphiaros! Lignumvitae
Pan, Pan is dead!
Exuent Omnes!
- Title
- Dead Pan, The
- Alternative Title
- Wailing winds that wake our wonders
- Creator
-
George Shepard Burleigh
- Bibliographic Citation
- George S. Burleigh Papers, 1825-1902. John Hay Library, Brown University. Miscellaneous Manuscripts, "D" File, HA1070
- V.II. 92
- Date
- Date tbd
- Subject
- Mythology
- note
- I do not entirely trust my transcription - JJR
- I believe this to be an early work.
- Media
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The Dead Pan