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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1, Poetry - Volume 1

Note 37 — SAPPHO TO PHAON.[1]

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In the MS.:

Phaon—my Phaon I almost had said— Is fled, with Phaon your delights are fled.

Cromwell wrote against the last line "recte, non pulchre," and Pope tried three variations of it before he cast them aside for the version in the text:

Is gone, and with him all your pleasures fled. Is gone, and all that's pleasing with him fled. Is gone, and with him your delights are fled.

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