"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together."
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Source: Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863.
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