Down-Adown-Derry,
A Book of Fairy Poems by Walter de La Mare. (1873-1956).
New York, Henry Holt and Company.
Published: c.1922.Art by Dorothy Pulis Lathrop.
THEY TOLD ME
They told me Pan was dead, but I
Oft marvelled who it was that sang
Down the green valleys languidly
Where the grey elder-thickets hang.Sometimes I thought it was a bird
My soul had charged with sorcery ;
Sometimes it seemed my own heart heard
Inland the sorrow of the sea.But even where the primrose sets
The seal of her pale loveliness,
I found amid the violets
Tears of an antique bitterness.