midnight
She longed for song to express the swelling of her throat and the wistful ache of her heart . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- O witchery of the winter night -LRB- With broad moon shouldering to the west -RRB- ! In city streets the west wind sweeps Before my feet in rustling flight ; The midnight snows in untracked heaps Lie cold and desolate and white . I stand and wait with upturned eyes , Awed with the splendor of the skies And star-trained progress of the moon . The city walls dissolve like smoke Beneath the magic of the moon , And age falls from me like a cloak ; I hear sweet girlish voices ring Clear as some softly stricken string -- -LRB- The moon is sailing to the west . -RRB- The sleigh-bells clash in homeward flight ; With frost each horse 's breast is white -- -LRB- The big moon sinking to the west . -RRB-