"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!"
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Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.191
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