midnight
Then she said , ` Thy voice is friendly with me , O Ruark ! and thou scornest not the creature that I am . Counsel me as to my dealing with the Jewel . ' Surely the eyes of the Chief met the eyes of Bhanavar as when the brightest stars of midnight are doubled in a clear dark lake , and he sang in measured music : ` Shall I counsel the moon in her ascending ? Stay under that tall palm-tree through the night ; Rest on the mountain-slope By the couching antelope , O thou enthroned supremacy of light ! And for ever the lustre thou art lending , Lean on the fair long brook that leaps and leaps , -- Silvery leaps and falls . Hang by the mountain walls , Moon !