Note 12 — WINTER:[1]
Reading edition
Ver. 23, 24, 25. Virg. Ecl. v. 40, 42:
inducite fontibus umbras.... Et tumulum facite, et tumulo superaddite carmen.—Pope.
If the idea of "hiding the stream with myrtles" have either beauty or propriety, I am unable to discover them. Our poet unfortunately followed Dryden's turn of the original phrase in Virgil:
With cypress boughs the crystal fountains hide.—Wakefield.