"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made."
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Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1866). “Kavanagh. Driftwood”, p.365
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