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

Note 39 — SPRING:

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He owes this thought to Horace, Ode i. 9, 21.—Wakefield.

Or rather to the version of Dryden, since the lines of Pope have a closer resemblance to the translation than to the original:

The laugh that guides thee to the mark, When the kind nymph would coyness feign, And hides but to be found again.

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