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“The ancients had it right, thinking that goat- footed Pan, impish god of fertility and spring, could pipe the season in with an instrument of reeds. In the shallows of Esthwaite Water the green reeds are just pushing up through last years hollow stems. Frogs wake up. Birds come back. The season ferments like a crock of cowslip wine, fizzing with smells and giddiness.”