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

Note 49 — SUMMER:

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In place of this couplet and the next, the original MS. had these lines:

Such magic music dwells within your name, The voice of Orpheus no such pow'r could claim; Had you then lived, when he the forests drew, The trees and Orpheus both had followed you.

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