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

Note 14 — WINTER:[1]

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This is imitated from Walsh's Pastoral on the death of Mrs. Tempest in Dryden's Miscellanies, vol. v. p. 323:

Now shepherds! now lament, and now deplore! Delia is dead, and beauty is no more.—Wakefield.

Congreve's Mourning Muse of Alexis:

All nature mourns; the floods and rocks deplore And cry with me, Pastora is no more.

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