"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate."
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Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.150
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