Note 37 — HYLAS AND ÆGON.
Reading edition
Ver. 98, 100. There is a little inaccuracy here; the first line makes the time after sunset; the second before.—Warburton.
Pope had at first written:
Thus sung the swains while day yet strove with night, And heav'n yet languished with departing light.
"Quære," he says to Walsh, "if languish be a proper word?" and Walsh answers, "Not very proper."