"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"Autumn arrives like a warrior with the stain of blood upon his brazen mail. His crimson scarf is rent. His scarlet banner drips with gore. His step is like a flail upon the threshing floor."
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Source: Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Morituri Salutamus, (pp. 142-144), 1922.
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