midnight
`` Dinna flatter me , '' said James ; looking , however , rather proudishly at what I had said , and replacing his glasses on the brig of his nose , he then read us a screed of metre to the following effect ; part of which , I am free to confess , is rather above my comprehension . But , never mind . ELEGIAC STANZAS 'T is midnight deep ; the full round moon , As ` twere a spectre , walks the sky ; The balmy breath of gentlest June Just stirs the stream that murmurs by ; Above me frowns the solemn wood ; Nature , methinks , seems Solitude Embodied to the eye . Yes , 't is a season and a scene , Inez , to think on thee ; the day , With stir and strife , may come between Affection and thy beauty 's ray , But feeling here assumes control , And mourns my desolated soul That thou are rapt away ! Thou wert a rainbow to my sight , The storms of life before thee fled ; The glory and the guiding light , That onward cheer 'd and upward led ; From boyhood to this very hour , For me , and only me , thy flower Its fragrance seem 'd to shed . Dark though the world for me might show Its sordid faith and selfish gloom , Yet ` mid life 's wilderness to know For me that sweet flower shed its bloom , Was joy , was solace : -- thou art gone -- And hope forsook me , when the stone Sank darkly o'er thy tomb .