But, if returning Phyllis bless the plain,
The grass revives, the woods are green again.
In Pope's next version, the four lines "While you, &c.," ran as follows:
Winds, where you walk, shall gently fan the glade,
Or,
Where'er you walk fresh gales shall fan the glade,
Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade,
Flow'rs where you tread in painted pride shall rise,
Or,
Where'er you tread the purple flow'rs shall rise,
And all things flourish where you turn your eyes!
Walsh preferred the second form of the passage to the original draught; and of the variations in the second form he preferred the lines beginning "Where'er you walk," and "Where'er you tread."
[46] He had in view Virg. Ecl. x. 43:
hic ipso tecum consumerer ævo.—Wakefield.