"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"Take them, O Death! and bear away Whatever thou canst call thine own! Thine image, stamped upon this clay, Doth give thee that, but that alone!"
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Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.139
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