midnight
` _ We _ were there . She and I were there . I , in the chair upon the hearth ; she , a white wreck again , trailing itself towards me on the floor . But , I was the speaker no more , and the one word that she said to me from midnight until dawn was , ` Live ! ' ` The youth was there , likewise . In the tree outside the window . Coming and going in the moonlight , as the tree bent and gave .