"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing."
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Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.190
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