"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand,-- One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!"
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Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.126
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