"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all the hearts to behold the miraculous change."
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Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1883). “Complete Works”
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