“And yet shall Love himself be heard,
Though long deferred, though long deferred:
O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred:
Music is Love in search of a word.”

—  Sidney Lanier

"The Symphony" (1875).
Poetry

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American musician, poet 1842–1881

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