midnight
A dark valley between three mighty , heaven-abiding peaks , that almost seem the Trinity , in some faint earthly symbol . So in this vale of Death , God girds us round ; and over all our gloom , the sun of Righteousness still shines a beacon and a hope . If we bend down our eyes , the dark vale shows her mouldy soil ; but if we lift them , the bright sun meets our glance half way , to cheer . Yet , oh , the great sun is no fixture ; and if , at midnight , we would fain snatch some sweet solace from him , we gaze for him in vain ! This coin speaks wisely , mildly , truly , but still sadly to me . I will quit it , lest Truth shake me falsely . '' `` There now 's the old Mogul , '' soliloquized Stubb by the try-works , `` he 's been twigging it ; and there goes Starbuck from the same , and both with faces which I should say might be somewhere within nine fathoms long .