midnight
` The moon is your partner in this mysterious midnight revel , Margaret : '' ` And the midnight moon is weaving Her bright chain o'er the deep , Whose breast is gently heaving , As an infant 's asleep ; So the spirit bows before thee , To listen and adore thee , With a full but soft emotion , Like the swell of Summer 's ocean . ' '' ` How wise , after all , your advice to be hopeful ! The sweetest moments of our lives are passing now while we are wrapped in our devotion to each other . All sounds are sweet -- '' `` Tis sweet to hear At midnight on the blue moonlit deep , The song and oar of Adria 's gondolier , By distance mellowed o'er the water 's sweep . 'T is sweet to see the evening star appear ; 'T is sweet to listen to the night winds creep From leaf to leaf ; 't is sweet to view on high The rainbow , based on ocean , span the sky . ' '' Gabrielle now took up Hygeia 's letter again . The rainbow of hope based on ocean seemed to Jim to be disappearing beneath its watery foundation .