"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"That tree is very old, but I never saw prettier blossoms on it than it now bears. That tree grows new wood each year. Like that apple tree, I try to grow a new little wood each year."
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Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.746, Library of America
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