Moon Rainbow

Note: the lunar rainbow is a beautiful night effect peculiar to Hawaii. It occurs exactly as the day rainbow does, against a curtain of mist or rain, but its intensity compares with the day arch as the moon-stone with a fire-opal.

Staid people say that Pan is dead

But they are wrong. His shaggy head

I saw but yesterday at noon,

And once before when shone the moon

Across Manoa Valley where

The Ginger Blooms. The evening air

Was still . . . so still it made me fear

That if I shivered he might hear.

I waited while a silver mist

Skimmed down the sky. A moonbeam kissed

The gauzy veil. Pan looked around

And piped. a magic arch of sound

Curved out upon the misty air . . .

A lunar rainbow shimmered there.