Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night! The watershed of Time, from which the streams Of Yesterday and To-morrow take their way, One to the land of promise and of light, One to the land of darkness and of dreams!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Midnight! the outpost of advancing day!The frontier town and citadel of night!The watershed of Time, from which the streamsOf Yesterday and To-morrow take their way,One to the land of promise and of light,One to the land of darkness and of dreams! Midnight is a great time in the world. It marks the end of one day and the beginning of another. The beams that can be seen at midnight mark a boundary line between day and night. When we look at it most closely we find that it is really a place where both day and night meet.

It is an intersection where they meet. At midnight we see both day and night; but we also see both light and darkness. Midnight represents a time when things are about to change, such as when you go to sleep for the night or when you wake up in the morning.

Source: The Complete Poems Of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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