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

Note 5 — WINDSOR FOREST.

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Evidently suggested by Waller:

Of the first Paradise there's nothing found, Yet the description lasts.—Holt White.

Addison's Letter from Italy:

Sometimes misguided by the tuneful throng, I look for streams immortalised in song, That lost in silence and oblivion lie; Dumb are their fountains, and their channels dry; Yet run for ever by the muse's skill, And in the smooth description murmur still.—Wakefield.

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