Merry Christmas have a nice day
As a reader I find this to be true. Romantic era stories/novels are easy to come by. Everyone has heard of Edgar Allan Poe, he was a romanticism author, no was Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Hope that's what you were looking for.
'Makes sense' will be the right answer .
Some religious people looked at the light and decided to stay hopeful, others prayed the time would end