Note 168 — WINDSOR FOREST.
Reading edition
Originally thus:
Now shall our fleets the bloody cross display To the rich regions of the rising day, Or those green isles, where headlong Titan steeps His hissing axle in th' Atlantic deeps: Tempt icy seas, &c.—Pope.
The original lines were rejected, probably as too nearly resembling a passage in Comus:
And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream.—Bowles.