midnight
At one point or another in this skit , the style of each principal sensational novelist of the day is delightfully imitated . -- EDITOR . -RRB- Every one remembers in the Fourth Book of the immortal poem of your Blind Bard -LRB- to whose sightless orbs no doubt Glorious Shapes were apparent , and Visions Celestial -RRB- , how Adam discourses to Eve of the Bright Visitors who hovered round their Eden -- ` Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth , Unseen , both when we wake and when we sleep . ' '' ` How often , ' says Father Adam , ` from the steep of echoing hill or thicket , have we heard celestial voices to the midnight air , sole , or responsive to each other 's notes , singing ! ' After the Act of Disobedience , when the erring pair from Eden took their solitary way , and went forth to toil and trouble on common earth -- though the Glorious Ones no longer were visible , you can not say they were gone . It was not that the Bright Ones were absent , but that the dim eyes of rebel man no longer could see them . In your chamber hangs a picture of one whom you never knew , but whom you have long held in tenderest regard , and who was painted for you by a friend of mine , the Knight of Plympton .