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Quietly depart, as in It’s late, so let’s fold our tents. This term is a partial quotation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Day is Done” (1844): “And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And quietly steal away.”