midnight
`` Gigantic shadows , dancing in the twilight Fade with the sun 's last golden ray . On quivering bat-wings , sad and silent , Flits darkness -- night pursuing day . Hark ! as the twelfth hour sounds its knell At midnight , tolls a whimpering bell When yawning graves profane their secrecy . Ghosts stalk in dreamland haunting memory And spectral visions of departed friends arise Who freed of sin , that fetter of mortality , With Angels in their kingdom of Eternal Life Grace Heaven 's choir of harmony . '' The third day of July A. D. 1907 was a gala-day for the citizens of Prescott , a historic date for Arizona , as then our governor , in behalf of the territory , formally accepted an equestrian statue from its sculptor . This monument which commemorates our war with Spain had been erected on the public plaza of Prescott in honor of `` Roosevelt 's Rough Riders , '' the first regiment of United States Volunteer cavalry .