... Love hither makes his best retreat The gods that mortal beauty chase Still in a tree did end their race: Apollo hunted Daphne so Only that she might laurel grow And Pan did after Syrinx speed Not as a nymph, but for a reed What the garden does is the clarifying the mind's view of its desires and purposes, it reveals our true motives ... him and in the end turned into the laurel, which later became A's favourite plant. The story of Pan and Syrinx is similar only that Syrinx fell off the cliff and turned into the reed, out of which Pan made his flute. Marvell says that poth Pan and Apollo...

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... the eyes of a horrific killer and I could be his new victim. Frantically, I dash around looking for something to use as a weapon. Suddenly, I look behind me and he is swinging a metal pan about to wind up and hit me. I couldn't do anything. I know that this time I am actually trapped in the eyes of the killer. I close my eyes and hear a loud bang ... ...

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