midnight
I saw at once in the form of your hands and head those precious aptitudes which are shown in phrenology by the well-developed organs of the poetic faculty and of the love of harmony , which betoken the student of natural science . The protection accorded by Your Majesty to the poor herbalist , Lampe , arose not from benevolence only , but from the conviction that certain men are empowered to receive a revelation , and that it is not always the highly placed ones of earth to whom truth is thus manifested . '' `` It is true , '' said the king . `` Other men may see the stars shining in the midnight silence , but it seems to me that I actually hear that ` music of the spheres ' spoken of by Pythagoras . And I am proud to think that while I stand on the summit of earthly society , there are , immediately above me , intermediate angelic influences which carry on a boundless electric chain , linking us not merely with our own little planetary system , but with others -- with the whole universe . '' `` I do not venture , '' the king continued with a smile , `` to discourse openly on these beliefs . I should get the reputation of ` a king of dreams , ' about the worst a king can have .