Doubting I mused upon the cry,
"Great Pan is dead!"--and all the people
Went on their ways:--and clear and high
The quarter sounded from the steeple.
NOTES
=Wall Street=:--An old street in New York faced by the Stock Exchange
and the offices of the wealthiest bankers and brokers.
=the Treasury=:--The Sub-Treasury Building.
=last quotations=:--The latest information on stock values given out
before the Stock Exchange closes.
=Trinity=:--The famous old church that stands at the head of Wall
Street.
=curbstone war=:--The clamorous quoting, auctioning, and bidding of
stock out on the street curb, where the "curb brokers"--brokers who do
not have seats on the Stock Exchange--do business.
=sweet-do-nothing=:--A translation of an Italian expression, _dolce far
niente_.
=Sicilians=:--Theocritus (3rd century before Christ), the Greek pastoral
poet, wrote of the happy life of the shepherds and shepherdesses in
Sicily.
=Doric pillar=:--A heavy marble pillar, such as was used in the
architecture of the Dorians in Greece.
=Pan's pipe=:--Pan was the Greek god of shepherds, and patron of fishing
and hunting. He is represented as having the head and body of a man,
with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat. It was said that he invented
the shepherd's pipe or flute, which he made from reeds plucked on the
bank of a stream.
=pastoral ditty=:--A poem about shepherds and the happy outdoor life.
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