Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

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.