For my birthday, my husband found the most amazing gift. He found the original frontispiece to Scribner’s August 1910 issue in a heap of old prints at a local antique shop. The frontispiece is pretty rare and very few reproductions have ever been done. It’s a drawing by none other than Maxfield Parrish for the poem by George T. Marsh titled, The Errant Pan. What’s more, Maxfield Parrish used himself as the model. He took a picture of himself with a string tied to the camera shutter. Yes, that is actually him sitting there all regal playing the pipes. The print is in pristine shape.Â
That is my print. Below is the image as it appeared in Scribner’s opposite George T. Marsh’s poem.Â
Here is the issue in PDF of that year. http://library.brown.edu/pdfs/1257343852187500.pdf
The Errant Pan
by  George T. Marsh
No more ‘mid low Achaean hills
  Echo the flutes of Pan
The sad winds mourn thro’ groves forlorn
   Where once the blithe god ran;
But I know where the wanderer calls
   By Athabaskan waterfalls.
Still may his merry notes be heard
  Beneath a northern moon
He pipes the gray geese out at dawn
   O’er many a green lagoon
And lures the spotted fawns to play
   Along each leaf-hung waterway.
 Where flower the meadows of the clouds
   White with anemone,
He fills the wild-sheep’s lofty folds
   With his gay reveille
And frolics with the lambs in May
   Upon the cliffs of Kootenay.
Beneath the birches in the fall
   The shaggy minstrel lies,
While from his magic reeds ascend
   To bright Alaskan skies
The ditties that the dryads knew
   Where nimble feet of wood-nymph flew.
The troubadour has journeyed far
   Out to the blue Cascades,
Where dwells he in a fairer land
   Than his soft Grecian glades,
And dreams beside a bolder sea
   Than ever girdled Arcady.
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