The Great God Pan, he is now home with me. I had a special siting of him, as the child Pan in marble form, when we walked the midnight streets of Jim Thorpe, PA. Then discovered this statue in a little shop called The Emporium of Curious Goods. “I want you to forget right and wrong; to be as happy as the beasts, as careless as the flowers and the birds. To live to the depths of your nature as well as to the heights. Truly there are stars in the heights and they will be a garland for your forehead. But the depths are equal to the heights. Wondrous deep are the depths, very fertile is the lowest deep. There are stars there also, brighter than the stars on high. The name of the heights is Wisdom and the name of the depths is Love…Come away with me, Shepherd Girl, through the fields, and we will be careless and happy, and we will leave thought to find us when it can, for that is the duty of thought, and it is more anxious to discover us than we are to be found.” - From The Crock of Gold by James Stephens, 1912 #thegreatgodpan #godpan #fertility #jamesstephens #pan #syrinx #panpipes #greekgod #goatgod (at The Emporium of Curious Goods/Mauch Chunk General Emporium)