midnight
Death , God 's most tender angel , laid her divine lips upon the scars of sin , that vanished at her touch ; drew her white fingers across the lines and shadows of suffering time , and leaving the halo of eternal peace upon the frozen features , gave back to Beryl her beautiful Bertie of old . The sun was setting ; and far away the ice domes and minarets of immemorial mountains took on the burnished similitude of the New Jerusalem , which only the exiled saw from lonely Patmos . Lennox Dunbar lifted his wife from the form of the sleeper , whose ransomed soul had entered early into Rest ; and folded her tenderly to the heart that henceforth was her refuge from all earthly woes . At midnight , the brooding silence of the snow-hooded solitude was broken by the tolling of the monastery bell ; and while all the mountain echoes responded to the slow knell for the departed soul , there rose from the chapel under the cliffs , the solemn chant of the monks for their dead : `` Requiem aeternam dona eis , Domine , et lux perpetua luceat eis . '' `` Give them eternal rest , O Lord , and let perpetual light shine upon them . '' THE END .