midnight
The track still bore west , though Delphi lay in the south . Moreover , he had come to a broader road running through a little tableland . The highest peaks of Oeta were dark against the sky , and around him was a flat glade where oaks whispered in the night breezes . By this time he judged from the stars that midnight had passed , and he began to consider whether , now that he was beyond the fighting , he should not sleep and wait for dawn . He made up his mind to find a shelter , and , in the aimless way of the night traveller , pushed on and on in the quest of it . The truth is his mind was on Lemnos , and a dark-eyed , white-armed dame spinning in the evening by the threshold . His eyes roamed among the oaktrees , but vacantly and idly , and many a mossy corner was passed unheeded .