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"Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!"
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Midnight"I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour, And the moon rose over the city, Behind the dark church tower."
Midnight is the transition time from one day to the next – the moment when the date changes, on the local official clock time for any particular jurisdiction. By clock time, midnight is the opposite of noon, differing from it by 12 hours.
"Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!"
"The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve; Lovers, to bed; tis almost fairy time."
"It was evening here, But upon earth the very noon of night."
"O wild and wondrous midnight, There is a might in thee To make the charmed body Almost like spirit be, And give it some faint glimpses Of immortality!"
"That hour o nights black arch the keystane."
"Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man, And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain; This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars."