"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"O summer day beside the joyous sea! O summer day so wonderful and white, So full of gladness and so full of pain! Forever and forever shalt thou be To some the gravestone of a dead delight, To some the landmark of a new domain."
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Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1875). “The Masque of Pandora: And Other Poems”, p.140
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