[Footnote 52: Salem is used for Jerusalem in Psalm lxxvi. 2.]
[Footnote 53: Isaiah lx. 1.--POPE. "_Arise, shine; for thy light is
come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee._"]
[Footnote 54: The thoughts of Isaiah, which compose the latter part of
the poem, are wonderfully elevated, and much above those general
exclamations of Virgil, which make the loftiest parts of his Pollio:
Magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo
--toto surget gens aurea mundo!
--incipient magni procedere menses!
Aspice, venture laetentur ut omnia saeclo! &c.
The reader needs only to turn to the passages of Isaiah, here
cited.--POPE.]
[Footnote 55: The open vowel _thy eyes_ is particularly
offensive.--WAKEFIELD.]
[Footnote 56: Isaiah lx. 4.--POPE. "_Lift up thine eyes round about, and
see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons
shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side._"]
[Footnote 57: Isaiah lx. 3.--POPE. "_And the Gentiles shall come to thy
light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising._"]
[Footnote 58: Dryden in his Aureng-Zebe:
What sweet soe'er Sabaean springs disclose.--STEEVENS.
Saba, in Arabia, was noted for its aromatic products. Thus Milton, Par.
Lost, iv. 161:
Sabaean odours from the spicy shore
Of Araby the blest.]
[Footnote 59: Isaiah lx. 6.--POPE. "_All they from Sheba shall come;
they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall show forth the praises
of the Lord._"]
[Footnote 60: Broome, in Pope's Miscellanies, p. 104: