"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other."
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Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1887). “Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”
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