Are girt about and garnished,

Who match the wave's full metre

And drink the wind's wild wine

With joy more fierce and sweeter

Than joys we deem divine.

Ah, well were I for ever,

Wouldst thou change lives with me,

And take my song's wild honey,

And give me back thy sunny

Wide eyes that weary never,

And wings that search the sea;

Ah, well were I for ever,

Wouldst thou change lives with me.

Beachy Head: September 1886.

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PAN AND THALASSIUS

A LYRICAL IDYL

THALASSIUS

Pan!

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