midnight
I knew it contained my fate ; and yet I felt that I had not the power to change it . `` Come back to your country , your mother , and Edith . I do not bid you come back to me , for it seems that the distance that separates us is too immeasurable to be overcome . I remember telling you , when the midnight moon was shining upon us in the solitude of our chamber , that I saw as in a vision a frightful abyss opening between us , and I stood on one icy brink and you on the other , and I saw you receding further and further from me , and my arms vainly sought to reach over the cold chasm , and my own voice came back to me in mournful echoes . That vision is realized . Our hearts can never again meet till that gulf is closed , and confidence firm as a rock makes a bridge for our souls . `` I have loved you as man never should be loved , and that love can never pass away .