1 All trace of the moon had vanished.
2 It was the darkness of the new moon.
3 I do not remember all I did as the moon crept up the sky.
4 And in the westward sky, I saw a curved pale line like a vast new moon.
5 Either the moon or the planet Mercury was passing across the sun's disk.
6 The moon was on the wane: each night there was a longer interval of darkness.
7 I wondered vaguely what foul villainy it might be that the Morlocks did under the new moon.
8 The earth had come to rest with one face to the sun, even as in our own time the moon faces the earth.
9 Above me towered the sphinx, upon the bronze pedestal, white, shining, leprous, in the light of the rising moon.
10 The moon was setting, and the dying moonlight and the first pallor of dawn were mingled in a ghastly half-light.
11 So far I had seen nothing of the Morlocks, but it was yet early in the night, and the darker hours before the old moon rose were still to come.
12 Then my eye travelled along to the figure of the White Sphinx upon the pedestal of bronze, growing distinct as the light of the rising moon grew brighter.
13 Then, in the intermittent darknesses, I saw the moon spinning swiftly through her quarters from new to full, and had a faint glimpse of the circling stars.
14 As I stood there musing over this too perfect triumph of man, the full moon, yellow and gibbous, came up out of an overflow of silver light in the north-east.
15 Then, as my vigil wore on, came a faintness in the eastward sky, like the reflection of some colourless fire, and the old moon rose, thin and peaked and white.
16 Naturally, at first I took it to be the moon, but there is much to incline me to believe that what I really saw was the transit of an inner planet passing very near to the earth.
17 It occurred to me even then, that in the course of a few days the moon must pass through its last quarter, and the nights grow dark, when the appearances of these unpleasant creatures from below, these whitened Lemurs, this new vermin that had replaced the old, might be more abundant.
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