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

Note 151 — WINDSOR FOREST.

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Milton has "gulphy Dun" and "sedgy Lee," and Pope combined the characteristics. The remainder of the couplet is from Addison's translation of a passage in Claudian:

Her dropping locks the silver Tessin rears, The blue transparent Adda next appears.

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