Did Alexander Pope say “Hope springs eternal in the human breast”?

Did Alexander Pope say “Hope springs eternal in the human breast”?

Found word for word. Yes. The text appears in works attributed to Alexander Pope. Source and location below.

… trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher Death; and God adore. What future bliss, He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest: The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topped hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves …
An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires — Alexander Pope, ¶30 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #2428 · source

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