"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his armor should be somewhat bruised by rude encounters even, than hang forever rusting on the wall."
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Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1866). “Hyperion”, p.79
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