And only half aware I was a God.

O this unconquerable loneliness

That binds the crown of Godhead on our brows!

Yet easier the aloofness of the people

Than the familiar face of the half-God Pan.

I met in the woods the brute-divinity,

Who fleered an impudent hoof, a satyr-smile

Licking his lips:

"What, Helios! is the sun

Debased to something lower than the earth?