Note 1 — Chapter I · SOMEWHAT FABULOUS.
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The learned in the lore of ancient Rome may charge us, if they will, with a grievous wrong in considering Sleep as one of the softer sex, inasmuch as Somnus was one of the elder of the “lords of the creation.” We confess to an inclination towards the “ladies of the creation;” and in this matter especially
“We have a vision of our own, And why should we undo it?”