The flow'rs had shut their eyes—the zephyr light

Was gone, for it had rock'd the leaves to sleep.

And all the little birds had laid their heads

Under their wings—sleeping in feather beds.

XV.

Lone in her chamber sate the dark-ey'd maid,

By easy stages jaunting thro' her pray'rs,

But list'ning side-long to a serenade,

That robb'd the saints a little of their shares;

For Julio underneath the lattice play'd