"And the night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away.

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The nearer the dawnthe darker the night.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quotes
"And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day,Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,and silently steal away.
"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night...
"The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
"The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
"Midnight! the outpost of advancing day!The frontier town and citadel of night!The watershed of Time, from which the streamsOf Yesterday and To-morrow ...