Note 11 — HYLAS AND ÆGON.
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Pope had Waller's Thyrsis and Galatea in his memory:
Made the wide country echo to your moan, The list'ning trees, and savage mountains groan.—Wakefield.
The groans of the trees and mountains are, in Waller's poem, the echo of the mourner's lamentations, but to this Pope has added that the "moan" made "the rocks weep," which has no resemblance to anything in nature.