MIDNIGHT

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1. That hour, o' night's black arch the keystane.—BURNS, Tam o' Shanter
   

2. The midnight train is slow and old,
   But of it let this thing be told,
   To its high honor be it said,
   It carries people home to bed.
   My cottage lamp shines white and clear.
   God bless the train that brought me here.—JOYCE KILMER, The Twelve-Forty-Five
   

3. Midnight brought on the dusky hour
   Friendliest to sleep and silence.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
   

4. 'Tis now the very witching time of night,
   When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
   Contagion to this world.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
   

5. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.—SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer-Night's Dream