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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 6649 |
| AUTHOR: | Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
| QUOTATION: | 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!” 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The dead Pan. |
| Note 1. Thamus … uttered with a loud voice his message, “The great Pan is dead.”—Plutarch: Why the Oracles cease to give Answers. [back] |
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