Note 14 — A FRIEND OF ROBERT BURNS: (continued 3)
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CORTES alone in a night-gown.
All things are hush'd as Nature's self lay dead; The mountains seem to nod their drowsy head. The little Birds in dreams their songs repeat, And sleeping Flowers beneath the Night-dew sweat: Even Lust and Envy sleep; yet Love denies Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes.
DRYDEN's Indian Emperor.