"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn."
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Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.289, Wildside Press LLC
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