midnight
And then I took the Spanish language , which is better than English for certain purposes , and played on it like a harp of a thousand strings . I ranged from the second G below the staff up to F-sharp above it . I set my voice to poetry , art , romance , flowers , and moonlight . I repeated some of the verses that I had murmured to her in the dark at her window ; and I knew from a sudden soft sparkle in her eye that she recognized in my voice the tones of her midnight mysterious wooer . `` Anyhow , I had Fergus McMahan going . Oh , the vocal is the true art -- no doubt about that . Handsome is as handsome palavers .