"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple."
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Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.454
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