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[ Poetry ] Open Question : Summary of "A Summer Day by the Sea" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow please?

Poetry is hard ;/ Please can anyone summarize this for me? I honestly don’t understand. Please can you like type out what each line means or something lol. Talk to me like you’re telling a little kid something. Hehe thanks! ;) Just let me understand it lol Here it is: The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems. From the dim headlands many a light-house gleams, The street-lamps of the ocean; and behold, O’erhead the banners of the night unfold; The day hath passed into the land of dreams. O summer day beside the joyous sea! O summer day so wonderful and white, So full of gladness and so full of pain! Forever and forever shalt thou be To some the gravestone of a dead delight, To some the landmark of a new domain.