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And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair; And they heard the words it said,- "Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Air, Rose, Spirit
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”
And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair; And they heard the words it said,- Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!