[42] St. John iv. 37. "One soweth, and another reapeth."—Wakefield.
[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."
[44] Virg. Ecl. iv. 28:
Molli paulatim flavescet campus arista,
Incultisque rubens pendebit sentibus uva,
Et duræ 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.
[45] Pope has been happy in introducing this circumstance.—Warton.
[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."
[47] Virg. Ecl. iv. 21:
Ipsæ lacte domum referent distenta capelæ
Ubera, nec magnos metuent armeuta leones.—
Occidet et serpens, et fallax herba veneni
Occidet.