"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat."
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Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.455
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