midnight
It is powerful and yet indefinite ; in fact it could only have been written by one with a true poetic gift . `` The seven stars that never set are going westward . The funeral car of Lazarus moves on and the three mourners follow behind . They are above the fir wood and that 's the sign of midnight . Twenty-three years ago I was born into this world and now the twenty-third has run out . The time is gone . The known things are all over and buried in the darkness behind .