Music is love in search of a word.

He quotes from "The MarSidney Laniers of Glynn" and other. On one of these voyages his ship was boarded. He was famous in his day for his performances of a personal composition for the flute called "Black Birds" which mimics the song of that species.

Sidney Clopton Lanier (February 3 1842 – September 7 1881) was an American musician and poet.