midnight
He had looked upon the Negro as an ill-treated distant link of the human family ; he now regarded them as a part of God 's children . Oh , what a silence pervaded the house when the Christian had been removed . His indeed was a lonesome position . '' 'T was midnight , and he sat alone The husband of the dead , That day the dark dust had been thrown Upon the buried head . '' In the midst of the buoyancy of youth , this cherished one had drooped and died . Deep were the sounds of grief and mourning heard in that stately dwelling , when the stricken friends , whose office it had been to nurse and soothe the weary sufferer , beheld her pale and motionless in the sleep of death . Oh what a chill creeps through the breaking heart when we look upon the insensible form , and feel that it no longer contains the spirit we so dearly loved !