midnight
But ere the day comes back to her own again , and all the conquering armies of the dawn hurl their red lances in the face of the night , Yoharneth-Lahai leaves the sleeping Worlds , and rows back up the River of Silence , that flows from Pegana into the Sea of Silence that lies beyond the Worlds . And the name of the River is Imrana the River of Silence . All they that be weary of the sound of cities and very tired of clamour creep down in the night-time to Yoharneth-Lahai 's ship , and going aboard it , among the dreams and the fancies of old times , lie down upon the deck , and pass from sleeping to the River , while Mung , behind them , makes the sign of Mung because they would have it so . And , lying there upon the deck among their own remembered fancies , and songs that were never sung , and they drift up Imrana ere the dawn , where the sound of the cities comes not , nor the voice of the thunder is heard , nor the midnight howl of Pain as he gnaws at the bodies of men , and far away and forgotten bleat the small sorrows that trouble all the Worlds . But where the River flows through Pegana 's gates , between the great twin constellations Yum and Gothum , where Yum stands sentinel upon the left and Gothum upon the right , there sits Sirami , the lord of All Forgetting . And , when the ship draws near , Sirami looketh with his sapphire eyes into the faces and beyond them of those that were weary of cities , and as he gazes , as one that looketh before him remembering naught , he gently waves his hands . And amid the waving of Sirami 's hands there fall from all that behold him all their memories , save certain things that may not be forgotten even beyond the Worlds .