A snow-white steer before thy altar led:
And dares the fight, and spurns the yellow sands.—Wakefield.
The second line of the couplet in the text ran thus in the original manuscript:
With butting horns, and heels that spurn the sand.
This also was from Dryden, Ecl. iii. 135:
With spurning heels, and with a butting head.
[37] Originally thus in the manuscript:
Pan, let my numbers equal Strephon's lays,
Of Parian stone thy statue will I raise;
But if I conquer and augment my fold,
Thy Parian statue shall be changed to gold.—Warburton.
This he formed on Dryden's Vir. Ecl. vii. 45:
Thy statue then of Parian stone shall stand;
But if the falling lambs increase my fold,
Thy marble statue shall be turned to gold.—Wakefield.
[38] Pope had at first written,