This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
At this still hour the self-collected soul
Turns inward, and beholds a stranger there
Of high descent, and more than mortal rank;
An embryo God; a spark of fire divine.
Bio: Roelof Frederik "Pik" Botha is a former politician from South Africa who served as the country's foreign minister in the last years of the apartheid era.
