"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"The secret studies of an author are the sunken piers upon which is to rest the bridge of his fame, spanning the dark waters of oblivion. They are out of sight, but without them no superstructure can stand secure."
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Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Hyperion”, p.185, Jazzybee Verlag
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