HYMN TO PANO man! My man!Come careering out of the nightOf Pan! Io Pan!Io Pan! Io Pan! Come over the

HYMN TO PANO man! My man!Come careering out of the nightOf Pan! Io Pan!Io Pan! Io Pan! Come over the seaFrom Sicily and from Arcady!Roaming as Bacchus, with fauns and pardsAnd nymphs and satyrs for thy guards,On a milk-white ass, come over the seaTo me, to me,Come with Apollo in bridal dress(Shepherdess and pythoness)Come with Artemis, silken shod,And wash thy white thigh, beautiful God,In the moon of the woods, on the marble mount,The dimpled dawn of the amber fount!Dip the purple of passionate prayerIn the crimson shrine, the scarlet snare,The soul that startles in eyes of blueTo watch thy wantonness weeping throughThe tangled grove, the gnarled boleOf the living tree that is spirit and soulAnd body and brain — come over the sea,(Io Pan! Io Pan!)Devil or god, to me, to me,My man! my man!Come with trumpets sounding shrillOver the hill!Come with drums low mutteringFrom the spring!Come with flute and come with pipe!Am I not ripe?I, who wait and writhe and wrestleWith air that hath no boughs to nestleMy body, weary of empty clasp,Strong as a lion and sharp as an asp —Come, O come!I am numbWith the lonely lust of devildom.Thrust the sword through the galling fetter,All-devourer, all-begetter;Give me the sign of the Open Eye,And the token erect of thorny thigh,And the word of madness and mystery,O Pan! Io Pan!Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan Pan! Pan,I am a man:Do as thou wilt, as a great god can,O Pan! Io Pan!Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! I am awakeIn the grip of the snake.The eagle slashes with beak and claw;The gods withdraw:The great beasts come, Io Pan! I am borneTo death on the hornOf the Unicorn.I am Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan!I am thy mate, I am thy man,Goat of thy flock, I am gold, I am god,Flesh to thy bone, flower to thy rod.With hoofs of steel I race on the rocksThrough solstice stubborn to equinox.And I rave; and I rape and I rip and I rendEverlasting, world without end,Mannikin, maiden, Maenad, man,In the might of Pan.Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan! Io Pan!IO ΠAN -- source link

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