"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
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Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.282, Penguin
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