The Wind in the Willows

Give significance of the title "Piper at the gates of dawn"

CHAPTER: 7

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Rat and Mole are searching for Otter's son late at night. They dravel down the river when rat seems transfixed and then begins to cry, saying that he heard a beautiful melody that made him extremely happy. A moment later, Mole hears the song, a tune coming from pan pipes. Entranced, they follow the music to a small island in a narrow stream. On the island, they see a faun, holding pan pipes and standing over a sleeping otter. (He is an allusion to the Greek demigod Pan.)