[Footnote 12: 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: