"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

January 1, 1970

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"The Symphony" (1875).

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"The Symphony" (1875).