[Footnote 42: St. John iv. 37. "_One soweth, and another
reapeth_."--WAKEFIELD.]
[Footnote 43: Isaiah xxxv. 1.--POPE. "_The wilderness and the solitary
place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom
as the rose._"]
[Footnote 44: Virg. Ecl. iv. 28:
Molli paulatim flavescet campus arista,
Incultisque rubens pendebit sentibus uva,
Et durae quercus sudabunt roscida mella.
"_The fields shall grow yellow with ripened ears, and the red grape
shall hang upon the wild brambles, and the hard oak shall distil honey
like dew._"
Isaiah xxxv. 7. "_The parched ground shall become a pool, and the
thirsty land springs of water: In the habitation where dragons lay,
shall be grass with reeds and rushes._" Chap. lv. ver. 13. "_Instead of
the thorn shall come up the fir-tree, and instead of the briar shall
come up the myrtle-tree._"--POPE.]
[Footnote 45: Pope has been happy in introducing this
circumstance.--WARTON.]
[Footnote 46: Isaiah xli. 19, and chap. lv. 13.--POPE. "_I will set in
the desert the fir-tree, and the pine, and the box-tree together._"]
[Footnote 47: Virg. Ecl. iv. 21:
Ipsae lacte domum referent distenta capelae
Ubera, nec magnos metuent armeuta leones.--
Occidet et serpens, et fallax herba veneni
Occidet.
"_The goats shall bear to the fold their udders distended with milk: nor
shall the herds be afraid of the greatest lions. The serpent shall die,
and the herb that conceals poison shall die._"
Isaiah xi. 6, 7, 8. "_The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the
leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf, and the young lion,
and the fatling together: and a little child shall lead them. And the
lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on
the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the den
of the cockatrice._"--POPE.]
[Footnote 48: The similarity of the rhymes in this couplet to those of
the preceding is a blemish to this passage.--WAKEFIELD.]
[Footnote 49: Isaiah lxv. 25.--POPE. "_The lion shall eat straw like the
bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat._"]
[Footnote 50: Pope's line may have been suggested by Ovid's description
of the transformation of Cadmus and his wife into snakes. Of Cadmus it
is said, Met. iv. 595, that
ille suae lambebat conjugis ora;
and of husband and wife, when the change in both was complete, that