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

Note 156 — WINDSOR FOREST.

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So Dryden, Æneis, x. 156:

The winds their breath restrain, And the hushed waves lie flatted on the main.—Wakefield.

Pope's lines are compiled from the passage quoted by Wakefield and a couplet in the Court Prospect of Hopkins:

Unrolling waves steal softly to the shore, They know their sovereign and they fear to roar.

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