midnight
Do voices indeed issue from it ? What business has it on hand in this lonely place ? The mystery of the dark hours rests securely here . Its aspect is disquieting at noonday ; what must it be at midnight ? The dreamer asks himself -- for dreams have their coherence -- what this house may be between the dusk of evening and the twilight of approaching dawn ? Has the vast supernatural world some relation with this deserted height , which sometimes compels it to arrest its movements here , and to descend and to become visible ? Do the scattered elements of the spirit world whirl around it ?