midnight
As we folded him in the vestments of the grave and laid him into the silent halls of death , hope whispered of a glorious resurrection morn , when those blue orbs should again awake from that long peaceful sleep , and look out upon the beauties of the upper world . They placed his little form in a wide coffin , and laid it in the tomb to await the coming of his little sister . A week passed away , a week of weary watchfulness and anxiety , of pain , suffering and distress , and the angel returned again for the twin spirit . It was at the deep midnight hour when he announced his mysterious presence , by laying his icy hand and spreading his marble paleness over the form of the departing sister . The little frame was convulsed , and writhed beneath the grasp of the pale visitant , but he pitied not , relented not , but steady to his purpose , snapped the brittle thread of life , performed the task he had been commissioned with , and hurried away from that place of tears to cast his deep shadow over the sun light of other homes , and fill other hearts with grief , and cause other eyes to look red with weeping , `` because death has come into the world , '' and the children of men must fall before his withering blight . Already had decomposition commenced its repulsive work in the form of the little son , and he was laid away , while the coffin returned for the other dear one , who was to moulder with him in its narrow confines . Deposited in the same tomb , was a coffin covered with mould , and just ready to drop from the shelf upon which it was placed , and the shrunken boards had separated , and it was perforated with large cracks where it had been joined together .