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

Note 35 — WINTER:[1]

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Ovid, Met. xi. 47:

lacrimis quoque flumina dicunt Increvisse suis.

Oldham's translation of Moschus:

The rivers too, as if they would deplore Her death, with grief swell higher than before.

Fenton in his pastoral on the Marquis of Blandford's death:

And, swoln with tears, to floods the riv'lets ride.—Wakefield.

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