To prove it fresh from the river....

“This is the way,” laughed the great god Pan,

(Laughed while he sat by the river,)

“The only way, since gods began

To make sweet music, they could succeed.”

Then, dropping his mouth to a hole in the reed,

He blew in power by the river.

Sweet, sweet, sweet, O Pan!

Piercing sweet by the river!

Blinding sweet, O great god Pan!