midnight
The good Samaritan doeth his good by stealth ; the wicked one cometh and soweth his tares among the wheat . The lover and the lustful person , the thief and the thinker , the preacher and the poacher , are abroad in the night . In factories and mills , beside the ceaseless whirl of machinery , stand men to whom day is night and night day . In cities the guardians of the midnight go hither and thither with measured step under the drizzling rain . No man cares that they are lonely and cold . Yet , nevertheless , both light and darkness , night and day , are but the accidents of a little time . It is twilight -- the twilight of the morning and of the gods -- that is the true normal of the universe .