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

Note 16 — WINTER:[1]

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Dryden's pastoral elegy on the death of Amyntas:

'Twas on a joyless and a gloomy morn, Wet was the grass and hung with pearls the thorn.

So in his version of Virgil, Ecl. x. 20:

And hung with humid pearls the lowly shrub appears.—Wakefield.

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