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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.
Hymn to Pan
Ben Jonson (15721637)
1 Nymph.
Of Pan we sing, the best of singers, Pan, | That taught us swains how first to tune out lays, | And on the pipe more airs than Phœbus can. Chorus. | Hear, O you groves, and hills resound his praise. 2 Nymph. | Of Pan we sing, the best of leaders, Pan, | That leads the Naiads and the Dryads forth; | And to their dances more than Hermes can. Chorus. | Hear, O you groves, and hills resound his worth. 3 Nymph. | Of Pan we sing, the best of hunters, Pan, | That drives the hart to seek unusèd ways, | And in the chase more than Silvanus can. Chorus. | Hear, O you groves, and hills resound his praise. 2 Nymph. | Of Pan, we sing, the best of shepherds, Pan, | That keeps our flocks and us, and both leads forth | To better pastures than great Pales can. Chorus. | Hear, O you groves, and hills resound his worth. | And while his powers and praises thus we sing, | The valleys let rebound and all the rivers ring.
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