These two verses are obviously adumbrated from the conclusion of Virgil's first eclogue, and Dryden's version of it:
For see yon sunny hill the shade extends
And curling smoke from cottages ascends.—Wakefield.
[26] This fancy he derived from Virgil, Ecl. x. 53:
tenerisque meos incidere amores Arboribus.
The rind of ev'ry plant her name shall know. Dryden.—Wakefield.
Garth's Dispensary, Canto vi:
Their wounded bark records some broken vow,
And willow garlands hang on ev'ry bough.
[27] According to the ancients, the weather was stormy for a few days when Arcturus rose with the sun, which took place in September, and Pope apparently means that rain at this crisis was beneficial to the standing corn. The harvest at the beginning of the last century was not so early as it is now.
[28] The scene is in Windsor Forest; so this image is not so exact.—Warburton.
[29] This is taken from Virg. Ecl. x. 26, 21:
Pan deus Arcadiæ venit . . . .
Omnes, unde amor iste, rogant tibi.—Wakefield.