In the purple mists of evening

“Westward, westward, Hiawatha
Sailed into the fiery sunset,
Sailed into the purple vapours,
Sailed into the dusk of evening.

Thus departed Hiawatha,
Hiawatha the Beloved,
In the glory of the sunset,
In the purple mists of evening,
To the regions of the home-wind . . .
To the land of the Hereafter!”

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Hiawatha; a poem”, 1855.