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Pan with Us

Pan came out of the woods one day,—

His skin and his hair and his eyes were gray,

The gray of the moss of walls were they,—

     And stood in the sun and looked his fill

     At wooded valley and wooded hill.


He stood in the zephyr, pipes in hand,

On a height of naked pasture land;

In all the country he did command

     He saw no smoke and he saw no roof.

     That was well! And he stamped a hoof.


He heart knew peace, for none came here

To this lean feeding save once a year

Someone to salt the half-wild steer,

     Or homespun children with clicking pails

     Who see so little they tell no tales.


He tossed his pipes, too hard to teach

A new-world song, far out of reach,

For a sylvan sign that the blue jay’s screech

     And the whimper of hawks beside the sun

     Were music enough for him, for one.


Times were changed from what they were:

Such pipes kept less of power to stir

The fruited bough of the juniper

     And the fragile bluets clustered there

     Than the merest aimless breath of air.


They were pipes of pagan mirth,

And the world had found new terms of worth.

He laid him down on the sun-burned earth

     And ravelled a flower and looked away—

     Play? Play?—What should he play?

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Robert Frost

Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published i…
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