"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise."
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Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.100
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