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

Note 88 — WINDSOR FOREST.

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The epithet "absent," employed to denote that the trees were only a reflection in the water, is more perplexing than descriptive, particularly as the "absent trees" are distinguished from the "pendant woods," which must equally have been absent.

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