"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts."
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Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (185?). “The Poetical Works of Henry W. Longfellow”, p.450
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