Footnotes
[426:2] From the original manuscript draft in Dickinson's handwriting, which has given rise to the belief that he, not Jefferson (as formerly claimed), is the real author of this sentence.
W. J. MICKLE. 1734-1788.
The dews of summer nights did fall,
The moon, sweet regent of the sky,[426:3]
Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall
And many an oak that grew thereby.
Cumnor Hall.
For there 's nae luck about the house,
There 's nae luck at a';
[[427]]There 's little pleasure in the house
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When our gudeman 's awa'.
The Mariner's Wife.[427:1]
His very foot has music in 't
As he comes up the stairs.
The Mariner's Wife.