Note 48 — SPRING:
Reading edition
These verses were thus at first:
All nature mourns, the birds their songs deny, Nor wasted brooks the thirsty flow'rs supply; If Delia smile, the flow'rs begin to spring, The brooks to murmur, and the birds to sing.—Pope.
Wakefield remarks that the last couplet of the original version, which is but slightly modified in the text, was closely imitated from Addison's Epilogue to the British Enchanters:
The desert smiles, the woods begin to grow, The birds to warble, and the springs to flow.