midnight
A number of projects , each of which , I firmly believe , would have benefited my kind , and facilitated correspondence between all created beings , terminated unfortunately , and my relatives at length placed it out of my power to continue these philanthropic exertions . For some years I was denied the ear of man , and in the interval my hair grew gray and my body a trifle faint . But the lofty impulses of youth survived . My mind could not be imprisoned , and I held communication with the stars through the grating of my chamber in the still midnight . At last the relief came . I had long prayed for it ! My deliverer was Sirius , the brightest of the celestial intelligences .